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sails, went forward as well as if we had been upon water, leisurely and gently sliding upon the ice; but on the fifth day the weather grew warm, and the frost brake, and all was turned to water again. We had not sailed three hundred furlongs forwards but we came to a little island that was desert, where we only took in fresh water (which now began to fail us), and with our shot killed two wild bulls, and so departed. These bulls have their horns growing not upon their heads but under their eyes, as Momus thought it better.Momus found fault with Jupiter for not setting the bulls' horns in this manner. Arist. de part. ani. l. 3. He was the god of feasting and of carping amongst the Heathen.
Hesiod, in his Theog., says that he was the son of the Night, but begotten without a father. Then we entered into a sea, not of water but of milk, in which appeared a white island full of vines. This island was only a great cheese well pressed (as we afterwards found when we fed
Hesiod, in his Theog., says that he was the son of the Night, but begotten without a father. Then we entered into a sea, not of water but of milk, in which appeared a white island full of vines. This island was only a great cheese well pressed (as we afterwards found when we fed
