Curiosities of savage lifeBeeton, 1864 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abomey Abyssinia Africa amazons appeared arms arrow bamboo BEETON'S BEETON'S BOOK blood boat body Bouda Boy's boys Bruce calabash called canoe captain carried Cazembe ceremony chief cloth club Coloured Plates commenced cowries custom Dahomey dance Dayaks dead death dressed Egbo enemy European father feast feet fetish Figian Finow fire friends Gézo gilt edges give guns hand head hyæna Illanuns Illustrated Indian Jaga JAMES GREENWOOD killed king King of Dahomey king's live Manabozho Mandan mats medicine morning natives night once ornamented palm wine party Penny Magazine person piece present priests rain round Samoan seated sick side skin skulls slaves soon spear spirit squaw sticks supposed tabu tapu took traveller tree tribes Uniform with Wild village warriors weapon whilst Wild Sports woman women wood wounded yards young
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 205 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
עמוד 221 - But, during the season of strict tabu, every fire and light on the island or district must be extinguished ; no canoe must be launched on the water, no person must bathe; and, except those whose attendance was required at the temple, no individual must be seen out of doors ; no dog must bark, no pig must grunt, no cock must crow,—or the tabu would be broken, and fail to accomplish the object designed.
עמוד 69 - It is also related, although I confess I can scarcely believe it, that on some occasions, when the brain has been injured as well as the bone, they have opened the skull, taken out the injured portion of the brain, and, having a pig ready, have killed it, taken out the pig's brains, put them in the man's head, and covered them up.
עמוד 215 - The chiefs all drank a portion out of the same cup, according to rank; and after that, the food brought as an offering was divided and eaten 'there before the Lord.
עמוד 297 - can so great a man refuse knowledge, and turn away from wisdom ? Tell me, my friend, why I must not ' add to words' and speak of a resurrection ?" Raising and uncovering his arm, which had been strong in battle, and shaking his hand as if quivering a spear, he replied, " I have slain my thousands, (bontsintsi,) and shall they arise?
עמוד 75 - The sun was now piercingly hot ; the oxen were raging in the yoke, and we ourselves nearly delirious. Finding it impossible to influence the woman to move, without running the risk of her dying convulsed in our hands, we collected a quantity of fuel, gave her a good supply of dry meat, some tobacco, and a knife, with some other articles ; telling her we should return in two days, and stop the night, when she would be able to go with us; only she must keep up a good fire at night, as the lions would...
עמוד 254 - I may as well go to the meeting too, and I went with him. There stood up a man in black, and began to talk .to the people very angrily. I did not understand what he said ; but perceiving that he looked much at me and...
עמוד 77 - Dainara's mind is bent upon number, it is too much occupied to dwell upon quantity ; thus a heifer is bought from a man for ten sticks of tobacco, his large hands being both spread out upon the ground, and a stick placed upon each finger.
עמוד 74 - It was a venerable looking old woman, a living skeleton, sitting with her head leaning on her knees. She appeared terrified at our presence, and especially at me. She tried to rise, but, trembling with weakness, sunk again to the earih.
עמוד 76 - it is not so." They have a very poor notion of time. If you say, " Suppose we start at sunrise, where will the sun be when we arrive ? " they make the wildest points in the sky, though they are something of astronomers, and give names to several stars. They have no way of distinguishing days, but reckon by the rainy season, the dry season, or the pig-nut season. When inquiries are made about how many days' journey off a place may be, their ignorance of all numerical ideas is very annoying.