 The Inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa, though a nasty People, yet for Wealth are Gentlemen to these; who have no Houses and Skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of the Earth, Ostrich...  Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind - עמוד 260מאת James Cowles Prichard - 1847תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | John Elliot Wills - 2001 - 358 דפים
...of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods [Hottentots] of Monomatapa, though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen...sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, etc, as the Hottentots have; and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes.... | |
 | Jonathan Lamb - 2001 - 368 דפים
...the coast of New Holland is a collection of absent things. He produces a litany of that which is not: "no Houses, and skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of the Earth, Ostrich-Eggs ... no Instruments to catch great Fish . . . there is neither Herb, Root, Pulse nor any... | |
 | Jeffery Pike, Brian Bell - 2002 - 408 דפים
...between European expectation and antipodean fact. He saw them as the most miserable people on earth "who have no Houses and Skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of the Earth... setting aside their human shape they differ but little from Brutes. . . Their Eye-lids are always half... | |
 | F. J. Fornasiero, Peter Monteath, John West-Sooby - 2004 - 468 דפים
...from that of Quirós. The Inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the World . . . setting aside their Humane Shape, they differ but little from Brutes. They are tall, strait-bodied, and then, with small long Limbs. They have great Heads, round Foreheads, and great Brows.... | |
 | George Seddon - 2005 - 304 דפים
...The inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa, though a nasty People, yet for Wealth are Gentlemen...aside their Humane Shape, they differ but little from Brutes.7 He was no more impressed by his second encounter in 1699: These New-Hollanders were probably... | |
 | Turner B S Staff - 2004 - 390 דפים
...year 1688. He found the natives ' the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods, of Monomatapa, though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these: who have no houses, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth. . . . They have no houses, but lie in the open air.' Curiously... | |
 | Richard Lansdown - 2006 - 450 דפים
...People in the World. The Hodmadods [Hottentots] of Monomatapa [a mythic kingdom of central Africa], though a nasty People, yet for Wealth are Gentlemen...they differ but little from Brutes. They are tall, strait-bodied, and thin, with small long Limbs. They have great Heads, round Foreheads, and great Brows.... | |
 | Adrian Franklin - 2006 - 276 דפים
...inhabitants of this country are the miserablest People in the world. The Hodtnadods of Monotnatapa, though a nasty People, yet for Wealth are Gentlemen...Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of the Earth, Ostrich Eggs etc as the Hodmadods have: and setting aside their humane shape, they differ but little from Brutes.... | |
 | Evan McHugh - 2006 - 266 דפים
...having neither boats nor iron. The inhabitants he regarded as 'the miserablest people in the world . . . who have no houses, and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, etc'. Though his European ideas about quality of life rendered his impressions of them unfavourable,... | |
 | Riccardo Capoferro - 2007 - 235 דפים
...Inhabitants of this Country are thè miserablest People in thè World. The Hodmadods of Monomatopa, though a nasty People, yet for Wealth are Gentlemen...Houses and Skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of thè Earth, Ostrich Eggs, etc., as thè Hodmadods have: and setting aside their humane Shape, they... | |
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