The manta is a large, flat fish of great size, which wraps its fins round the object it seizes, and presses it to death.
The dun laid back his ears, and rolled his eyes, and humped up his back a little, as the saddle cinches were tightened, but stood quiet while the packs were put in place, and the manta thrown over them.
The manta is usually drawn so closely about the figure as to show its outlines with the most conspicuous distinctness, and the young women of Lima are as famous for their beauty of form as for their beauty of face.
One end of the mantafalls down the front of the dress as far as the knee, while the other is thrown around the shoulders and fastened at the breast with an ornamental pin.
There is a romantic story about the manta which explains the reason that it is always black.
The manta is square in shape and about two yards in size.
It is said that the custom of wearing the manta originated among the Incas, but that they wore colors until the assassination of Atahualpa, their king, by the Spaniards under Pizarro.
This mantais a shawl of black China crape, and the amount of silk embroidery upon it indicates the wealth of the wearer.
Perhaps their national costume does much to heighten their beauty, for any woman not positively ugly would look well in the embroidered manta that the ladies of Lima always wear.
The manta, or sea-devil, of tropical America is Manta birostris.
It is not likely, however, that themanta devours anything larger than the pearl-oyster itself.
Manta hamiltoni is a name given to a sea-devil of the Gulf of California.
The common Spaniard wraps himself in his brown cloak, stretches himself on his manta or mule-cloth, and sleeps soundly, luxuriously accommodated if he can have a saddle for a pillow.
There are also some interesting remarks on the emeralds of Manta in Bollaert’s Antiquarian and other Researches in New Granada, Ecuador, Peru, etc.
They are found in the tombs of the Indians of Manta and Atacames: and are, in beauty, size, and hardness, superior to those of New Granada.
Velasco says that an emerald was among the insignia of the Scyris or kings of Quito, and that the Indians of Manta worshipped a great emerald under the name of Umiña.
How in ancient times the Indians of Manta worshipped an emerald as their god; and of other things concerning these Indians.
Acosta says that emeralds were found most abundantly in New Granada, and in Peru, near Manta and Puerto Viejo.
How in ancient tunes the Indians of Manta worshipped an emerald as their God; and of other things concerning these Indians 182 CHAP.
In this province, also, the Lord of Manta had an emerald of great size and value, which the people and their ancestors held in great veneration.
A slash, and the manta peeled back against the wall of the cell.
Lizards—maybe even rats—could move about the beams, hidden by the age-browned manta strips.
Miss Dolores had consented to wear a manta de Manila or soft shawl wound gracefully around her, and in her hair a red clavel.
I think I like the picture of Miss Dolores in her manta de Manila.
The second is that the spider is figured on the manta of Mictlantecuhtli in the B.
The conventionalized figure of a butterfly, with a star on its body and four balls, painted with the colors of the quarters, was a sacred symbol which is minutely described by Sahagun and is figured on a manta in the B.
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