Wonders of bodily strength and skill : in all ages and all countries (1873)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York : Scribner, Armstrong & Co. · leaf 154
appearance. He leapt over nine horses ranged sideby side, and over the man who was mounted upon themiddle one. A cord, which was extended before him at theheight of fourteen feet above the ground, he cleared with asingle effort. With a furious bound he crushed with hisfoot a bladder suspended… … 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
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