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... plant , if plant it should be called , had blood , but not true flesh : that , in place of flesh , it had a substance similar to the flesh of the crab , and that its hoofs were not horny , like those of a lamb , but of hairs brought to ...
... plant , if plant it should be called , had blood , but not true flesh : that , in place of flesh , it had a substance similar to the flesh of the crab , and that its hoofs were not horny , like those of a lamb , but of hairs brought to ...
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... plant which grew in Asia , and which produced gourds or pods , inside which was found ' a little lamb ' , or rather , a fleecy substance of some kind . This could be only one thing : a somewhat distorted account of the cotton plant ...
... plant which grew in Asia , and which produced gourds or pods , inside which was found ' a little lamb ' , or rather , a fleecy substance of some kind . This could be only one thing : a somewhat distorted account of the cotton plant ...
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... plant . So that once the figurative description had been taken literally , the rest of the legend about how it fed and died arose naturally enough . Cotton came from the uplands of Persia and India . The lamb's wool and astrakhan ...
... plant . So that once the figurative description had been taken literally , the rest of the legend about how it fed and died arose naturally enough . Cotton came from the uplands of Persia and India . The lamb's wool and astrakhan ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
Animals and Man 1 Animals and Man 74 | 5 |
Shaman into Scientist ΙΟ | 10 |
Copyright | |
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