"Dugong" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... marine species include the dugong, seals, turtles, and whales; oil pollution in the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, and ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... Nang binubuhat ang ostia nang padre sapagmi misa sino caia ang naroon? S, ang atin panginoon Jesu Christo Dios totoo, at tauog totoo, para doon sa langit. T, sa caliz sino caia ang naroon? S, Ang dugong totoo nang atin panginoon Jesuchristo, capara niun nabohos sa cruz nang na matai siya. T, ano caia ang ga gauin nang manga Christiano nang macaparoon sa langit? S, Ang susundin nila ang sang po, uong otos nang dios, pati nang otos nang ...
— Doctrina Christiana • Anonymous
... fish is from Pliny (ix. cap. 3): all those tales are founded upon the manatee (whose dorsal protuberance may have suggested the camel), the seal and the dugong or sea calf. I have noticed (Zanzibar i. 205) legends of ichthyological marvels current on the East African seaboard; and even the monsters of the Scottish waters are not all known: witness the mysterious "brigdie." ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... seal of the hair species, like those of Rottnest Island, was seen on the rocks, probably of the same description that Dampier found in the maw of the shark;* and also what was found by the French on Faure Island, which M. Peron supposed to be an herbivorous animal and described as a dugong.** ...
— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] • Phillip Parker King
... mountains when they saw the flood rising became monkeys; those who flung themselves into the sea became fish; the Chinese turned into hornbills; a woman who was eating seaweed and kept on eating after the waves broke over her became a dugong. ...
— Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate • Charles M. Skinner |
