This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...carried about, and became the highest, and the uppermost part was as suddenly turned downward and under all: which, when Sesostris had judiciously weighed, he dismissed those princes, and all others, from the like servitude in the future. Herodotus, i. 30-34, 207; iii. 40; vii. 46. IX. IN the Yle alfo of this Taprobane ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 Excerpt: ...carried about, and became the highest, and the uppermost part was as suddenly turned downward and under all: which, when Sesostris had judiciously weighed, he dismissed those princes, and all others, from the like servitude in the future. Herodotus, i. 30-34, 207; iii. 40; vii. 46. IX. IN the Yle alfo of this Taprobane, ben grete Hilles of Gold, that Piffemyres kepen fulle diligently. And thei fynen the pured Gold, and caften away the unpured. And theife Piffemyres ben grete as Houndes: fo that no man dar come to tho Hilles: for the Piffemyres wolde affaylen hem and devouren hem anon: fo that no man may gete of that Gold, but be gret fleighte. And therfore whan it is gret hete, the Piffemyres reften hem in the Erthe, from pryme of the Day in to Noon: and than the folk of the Contree taken Camayles, Dromedaries, and Hors and other Befl.es, and gon thidre, and chargen hem in alle hafte that thei may. And aftre that thei fleen awey, in alle hafte that the Beftes may go, or the Piffemyres comen out of the Erthe. And in other tymes, whan it is not fo hote, and that the Piffemyres ne reften hem not in the Erthe, than thei getten Gold be this Sotyltee; Thei taken Mares, that han zonge Coltes or Foles, and leyn upon the Mares voyde Veffelles made therfore; and thei ben alle open aboven, and hangynge lowe to the Erthe: and thanne thei fende forth tho Mares, for to pafturen aboute tho Hilles, and with holden the Foles with hem at home. And whan the Piffemyres fen tho Veffelles, thei lepen in anon and thei han this Kynde, that thei lete no thing ben empty among hem, but anon thei fillen it, be it what maner of thing that it be: and fo thei fillen tho Veffelles with Gold. And whan that the folk fuppofen, that the Veffelle ben fulle, thei putten forthe anon the zonge Fo...
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