Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 524
trongcurrent prevents their return, is found the bird Gryphon,which appears there at certain seasons. The descriptiongiven of it is, however, entirely different from what ourstories and pictures make it. For persons who had beenthere and had seen it told Messer Marco Polo that itwas for all the… … AN ETHIOPIAN SHEEP. seize an elephant in its talons and carry him high intothe air, and drop him so that he is smashed to pieces;having so killed him, the bird gryphon swoops down uponhim and eats him at leisure. The people of those islescall the bird Rue, and it has no other name. So I wotnot if…
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