Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 10972-h.htm or 10972-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10972/10972-h/10972-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10972/10972-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/mythicalmonsters00goulrich Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). The original text includes Persian characters. For this text file version these letters have been replaced with [Persian]. MYTHICAL MONSTERS. [Illustration: THE FUNG WANG. _ACCORDING TO_ FANG HENG.] MYTHICAL MONSTERS. by CHARLES GOULD, B.A., Member of the Royal Society of Tasmania; Late Geological Surveyor of Tasmania. With Ninety-Three Illustrations. [Illustration] London: W. H. Allen & Co., 13 Waterloo Place. S.W. Publishers to the India Office. 1886. (All rights reserved.) London: Printed By W H Allen and Co., 13 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall S.W. PREFACE. The Author has to express his great obligations to many gentlemen who have assisted him in the preparation of this volume, either by affording access to their libraries, or by furnishing or revising translations from the Chinese, &c.; and he must especially tender them to J. Haas, Esq., the Austro-Hungarian Vice-Consul at Shanghai, to Mr. Thomas Kingsmill and the Rev. W. Holt of Shanghai, to Mr. Falconer of Hong-Kong, and to Dr. N. B. Dennys of Singapore. For the sake of uniformity, the author has endeavoured to reduce all the romanised representations of Chinese sounds to the system adopted by S. W. Williams, whose invaluable dictionary is the most available one for students. No alteration, however, has been made when quotations from eminent sinologues like Legge have been inserted. Should the present volume prove sufficiently interesting to attract readers, a second one will be issued at a future date, in continuation of the subject. _June, 1884._ NOTE BY THE PUBLISHERS. The Publishers think it right to state that, owing to the Author's absence in China, the work has not had the advantage of his supervision in its passage through the press. It is also proper to mention that the MS. left the Author's hands eighteen months ago. 13, WATERLOO PLACE. S.W. _January, 1886._ CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 LIST OF AUTHORS CITED 27 CHAPTER I.--ON SOME REMARKABLE ANIMAL FORMS 31 CHAPTER II.--EXTINCTION OF SPECIES 42 CHAPTER III.--ANTIQUITY OF MAN 78 CHAPTER IV.--THE DELUGE NOT A MYTH 101 CHAPTER V.--ON THE TRANSLATION OF MYTHS BETWEEN THE OLD AND THE NEW WORLD 137