"'It was just after this adventure that we encountered a continent
of immense extent and prodigious solidity, but which, nevertheless,
was supported entirely upon the back of a sky-blue cow that had no
fewer than four hundred horns.'"*
* The earth is upheld by a cow of a blue color, having horns four
hundred in number."- Sale's Koran.
"That, now, I believe," said the king, "because I have read
something of the kind before, in a book."
"'We passed immediately beneath this continent, (swimming in between
the legs of the cow, and, after some hours, found ourselves in a
wonderful country indeed, which, I was informed by the man-animal, was
his own native land, inhabited by things of his own species. This
elevated the man-animal very much in my esteem, and in fact, I now
began to feel ashamed of the contemptuous familiarity with which I had
treated him; for I found that the man-animals in general were a nation
of the most powerful magicians, who lived with worms in their
brain,* which, no doubt, served to stimulate them by their painful
writhings and wrigglings to the most miraculous efforts of
imagination!'"
* "The Entozoa, or intestinal worms, have repeatedly been observed
in the muscles, and in the cerebral substance of men.
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