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Updated: May 17, 2025
Scarcely since the days of Homer has the feat been equaled; indeed, in many senses this also is a kind of Heroic Poem. We do the man's intellectual endowments great wrong, if we measure it by its mere logical outcome; though here, too, there is not wanting a light ingenuity, a figurativeness, and fanciful sport, with glimpses of insight far deeper than the common.
Bob, too, knelt at my side, uttering expressions of sympathy and encouragement, expressed, as usual, with true nautical figurativeness of speech.
In the famous Hindoo epic, the "Ramayana" of Valmiki, "by singing and hearing which continually a man may attain to the highest state of enjoyment, and be shortly admitted to fraternity with the gods," the exploits of Hoonamunta, the Divine Monkey, are gravely related, with a dramatic force and figurativeness that hold a street audience spell-bound; but to the European imagination the childish drollery of the plot is irrestistible.
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