...Country are the miserablest People in the World," he claimed in a best-seller about his adventures. "Their Eye-lids are always half closed, to keep the Flies out of their Eyes." Dampier's popular travelogue remained so influential — no European had touched any part of the continent...

...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,...always half closed, to keep the Flies out of their Eyes . . . They are long-visaged, and of a very unpleasing Aspect, having no one graceful Feature in their...

...unfavourable, his description of them was quite detailed. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows. Their eyelids are always half-closed to keep the flies out of their eyes; they being so troublesome here that no fanning will...

...straight-bodied and w thin, with small, long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads and great brows. f o Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes . . . They have great ^ bottle noses, pretty full lips and wide mouths. The two fore-teeth of their...

...had." " The inhabitants of this country are the most miserable people in the world. The Hottentots, compared with them, are gentlemen. They have no houses,...no fanning will keep them from one's face, so that front their infancy they never open their eyes as other people do ; and, therefore, they cannot see...

...humane Shape, they differ but little from Brutes. They are tali, strait bodied, and thin, with small long Limbs. They have great Heads, round Foreheads,...Brows. Their Eye-lids are always half closed, to keep thè Flies out of their Eyes: they being so troublesome nere, that no fanning will keep them from coming...