"They told the marvellous incidents of the voyage to their listening friends"

"They told the marvellous incidents of the voyage to their listening friends"

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

Knox stands on the rock to demonstrate his powers of deduction, an event which results in much storytelling upon the return to shore

James Spencer Knox, 1789-1862

Pastoral Annals. By an Irish Clergyman [i.e. James S. Knox], pp. 392-93

R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, London

1840

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English

Travelogue

DD_0283

Lough Derg

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"I doubt whether [the boatmen] did not expect that some supernatural event would occur to chastise the rashness of my proceedings, and vindicate the veracity of tradition. In this pious aspiration they were disappointed, for both they and I reached the shore together in perfect safety. Scarcely had they landed when, with many a vehement gesture, and in the loudest strain of utterance, they told the marvellous incidents of the voyage to their listening friends, who on their part gave ear with breathless attention to a fable so indescribably absurd, that the habitual domination of inbred, and inculcated superstition, could alone endure for it even a patient hearing."

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