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Page 95
... supposed to have bred on the Isle of Man and given rise to the breed known as Manx cats . It is often stated that the Manx cat is the only completely tailless cat in the world , and that may be true in the strict sense , for the pure ...
... supposed to have bred on the Isle of Man and given rise to the breed known as Manx cats . It is often stated that the Manx cat is the only completely tailless cat in the world , and that may be true in the strict sense , for the pure ...
Page 194
... supposed that they had reached the mainland of Asia . They were misled into a maze of fantastic errors by their attempts to explain their surroundings by consulting the narratives of Marco Polo and other Asiatic travelers . The Admiral ...
... supposed that they had reached the mainland of Asia . They were misled into a maze of fantastic errors by their attempts to explain their surroundings by consulting the narratives of Marco Polo and other Asiatic travelers . The Admiral ...
Page 258
... supposed to be greedy and gluttonous or whether it was supposed to be greedy and gluttonous because it was called a glutton . At any rate the proverbial voracity and greediness of the glutton is pretty much a myth . It is a carnivorous ...
... supposed to be greedy and gluttonous or whether it was supposed to be greedy and gluttonous because it was called a glutton . At any rate the proverbial voracity and greediness of the glutton is pretty much a myth . It is a carnivorous ...
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