Wonders of bodily strength and skill, in all ages and countries (1885)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 150
High Leap. (From an ancient carving.) Stranger things than those, for the Orientals are endowedwith astonishing suppleness of joints. Colonel Ironside,who at the beginning of the century lived in India, and … Leaping with Pole. (From a vase.) closely observed the feats of the jugglers, met in his travelsan old white-bearded man, who, with one leap, spmng oveithe back of an enormous elephant, flanked by five or six J 2 148 WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILL. camels of the largest breed. The poor man,…
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