Another World

-Remedy--The swan's head--Captain's quarters--Vessels propelled
by electric power--Machinery--Steering and stoppage of the
vessel--TIMBER FOR SHIPS--How seasoned--How protected against
insects in every part--The COMPASS--The ANCHOR--Peculiarity of its
formation: how let out and hauled in--The Bison ropes


XLIV.--PICTURES FROM WATER.

Interesting discoveries--Microscopic pictures transmitted from a
distance--Picture made of a landscape and persons afar off--Picture
of swan-vessels and passengers--How effected--Bottom of the sea
rendered visible


XLV.--THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.

Invaluable--Antipathy to human beings--Hippopotamus'
hide--Impervious to water--Resistance to destroying forces--All
parts of the animal utilised--Parts subservient to the
beautiful--Hippopotamus' land--Numerous herds--Their keepers--How
attired--The herb antipathetic to hippopotami--How
discovered--Experiment with the young beast--Antipathetic solution
keeps animals away from cities--They love fresh-water rivers--The
Aoe waters prejudicial to man--Mode of rearing
Hippopotami--Precautions adopted--Why they have not been able to
rear animal in Western Europe--Recommendations--Habits of the
animal--The hippopotami--dance--How the young one is separated from
the mother--How a hippopotamus is removed from the herd--The food
of the hippopotamus in general


XLVI.--WILD ANIMALS.

The Serpent--The Boa--Professors to examine medicinal and other
properties--Modes of capturing wild beasts--Huntsmen--The iron-work
net--The watch-hut--The bait--Dead animals not allowed in the
city--Habits of the tiger--THE TIGER AND THE CHILD--THE UNICORN


XLVII.--THE SUN.

The palace--Communication with auxiliary tower--Observatory--STAR
INSTRUMENT constructed--Secrets revealed--Inhabitants and
atmospheres of the stars differ--Invisible beings--The SUN-OCEAN,
Mountains, and Continents--

John Addington Symonds (October 5, 1840 - April 19, 1893) was an English poet and literary critic. He was an early advocate of the validity of male love which included for him pederastic as well as egalitarian relationships, and which he would refer to as lamour de limpossible.

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