"They would make a Jonas of me against my will"

"They would make a Jonas of me against my will"

Travelogues--James Spencer Knox--Lough Derg--Description

Knox reasons that the boatmen would prefer that the monster eat the heretic reverend rather than them

James Spencer Knox, 1789-1862

Pastoral Annals. By an Irish Clergyman [i.e. James S. Knox], p. 391=2

R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, London

1840

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English

Travelogue

DD_0281

54.608669,-7.877939

https://books.google.com.mm/books?id=kIIuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=lough%20derg&f=false

"Two things were now clear to me - First, that the panic of these fellows [about the lake serpent] might be sincere; and secondly, that if it were, they had comforted themselves with the conclusion, that if the offended honour of the monster required a sacrifice, the heretic parson would undoubtedly be selected. I felt quite sure that such had been the process of induction adopted by my fellow reasoners; so, entertaining no fears, either that they would make a Jonas of me against my will, or that the Lake King desired my for an 'entremet,' I plied my art with so much diligence, that in a few minutes we were alongside the object of my companions' fear."

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