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| Keywords: Curious creatures in zoology (15382861990).jpg CURIOUS CREATURES 9 <br> But there seems every probability that the story of <br> the Gryphon was invented by the goldfinders in order <br> to deter people from coming near them and interfering <br> with their livelihood There were however smaller <br> Arimaspians which probably the Gryphons did not heed <br> for Pliny tells us about the little thieves of mice In <br> gold mines too their stomachs are opened for this pur- <br> pose and some of the metal is always to be found there <br> which they have pilfered so great a delight do they take in <br> stealing Livy also twice mentions mice gnawing gold <br> There were Anthropophagi cannibals as there are <br> now but of course they then lacked the luxury of cold <br> missionary and there were besides many wonderful <br> beings Beyond the other Scythian Anthropophagi <br> there is a country called Abarimon situate in a certain <br> great valley of Mount Imaus the Himalayas the in- <br> habitants of which are a savage race whose feet are <br> turned backwards relatively to their legs ; they possess <br> wonderful velocity and wander about indiscriminately 23574764 76213 32031 Page 9 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/23574764 1890 10 5962/bhl title 32031 Ashton John NameFound Imaus NameConfirmed Imaus EOLID 64247 NameBankID 4205187 Biodiversity Heritage Library Curious creatures in zoology; with 130 illus throughout the text Monsters Are Real Animals University of California Libraries archive org bhl page 23574764 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/23574764 bhlMonstersRreal Halloween university of california libraries archive org bhlmonstersrreal Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-10-19 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/15382861990 2015-08-25 21 52 33 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Curious creatures in zoology Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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