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
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, sprung overthe back of an enormous elephant, flanked by five or six I 2 I48 WONDERS OF BODILY STRENGTH AND SKILL. camels of the largest breed. The poor man,…
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