. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . few minutes later, on the box being again opened, the man jumped outperfectly hearty and unhurt. Is not this rather a severe strain on ones credulity,even for an Indian jugglery story ?] In Philostratus, again, we may learn the antiquity of some juggling tricks that havecome up as novelties in our own day. Thus at Taxila a man set his son against aboard, and then threw darts tracing the outline of the boys figure on the feat was shown in London some fifteen or twenty years ago, and humorous
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . few minutes later, on the box being again opened, the man jumped outperfectly hearty and unhurt. Is not this rather a severe strain on ones credulity,even for an Indian jugglery story ?] In Philostratus, again, we may learn the antiquity of some juggling tricks that havecome up as novelties in our own day. Thus at Taxila a man set his son against aboard, and then threw darts tracing the outline of the boys figure on the feat was shown in London some fifteen or twenty years ago, and humorouslycommemorated in Punch by John Leech. {Philostratus, Fr. Transl. Bk. III. ch. xv. and xxvii. ; Mich. Glycas, Ann. , Paris ed. ; Delrio, Disquis. Magic, pp. 34, 100; Koeppen, I. 31, II. 82, 114-115,260, 262, 280; Vassilyev, 156; Delia Penna, 36; S. Setzen, 43, 353; Pereg. ; IV. 39 and 290 seqq.; Asial. Researches, XVII. 186; Valentyn, V. 52-54;Edward Melton, Engelsch E del mans, Zeldzaame en Gedenkwaardige Zee en Land CHO-KHANG The G»-a«d Temple oi- Bu<ldK( LHASA. n ??
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