Posted by Neredbojias on 06/29/07 05:22

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:22:24 GMT Blinky the Shark scribed:

>> Wow, looks cool. Maybe I'll do some Googling. Strange they'd name it
>> "Botany" although it's pleasant-sounding enough. Can't say I know of
>> any "Zoology Bay", however.
>
> The Chinese seem to think they do.
>
> "They landed in a horrible bay that Cook named Zoology Bay because of
> the beautiful animals that they found there. Later this was to become
> the place of the first French settlements in Australia. They found
> Austra�lia to be a boring country where the soil was white, bears
> climbed ladders, birds ran but didn�t fly and large animals jumped about
> on four legs carrying their young on their heads."
>
> Source: http://www.54laoshi.cn/Teaching/test3/test07/19307.html

Hah, what a coincidence! Of course there are those out there who may give
this less credence than it deserves because the Chinese also refer to their
boats as junks. Tao only knows what they call sharks, but I'd laugh if it
was "trash-fish" or something equally alliterative.

What a minute... Upon reading your link, it says it's a *mistake* in a
lesson. Tryin' to pull the lids over my eyes, eh?

--
Neredbojias

Once I had a little dog
Who wagged its tail spritely.
But it walked by the harvestor
And now is shorter slightly.

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