A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Towards the Antarctic Polar Circle, and Round the World:: But Chiefly Into the Country of the Hottentots and Caffres, from the Year 1772, to 1776, Τόμος 1G.G.J. and J. Robinson, Pater-noster-row., 1786 - 368 σελίδες |
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A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Towards the Antarctic Polar ..., Τόμος 1 Anders Sparrman Προβολή αποσπασμάτων - 1971 |
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Σελίδα 344 - Again, a painter was desirous of drawing the elephant kept in the menagerie at Versailles in an uncommon attitude, which was that of holding his trunk raised up in the air, with his mouth open. The painter's boy, in order to keep the animal in this posture, threw fruit into his mouth ; but as he...
Σελίδα 196 - ... to turn the fteak he is broiling over the coals. The materials for thefe huts are by no means difficult to be procured; and the manner of putting them together being both neat and inartificial, merits commendation in a Hottentot, and is very fuitable to his character. The...
Σελίδα 198 - Snceberg, are fwom enemies to the paftoral life. Some of their maxims are, to live on hunting and plunder, and never to keep any animal alive for the fpace of one night. By this means they render themfelves odious to the reft of mankind, and are purfued and exterminated like the wild beafts, whofe manners they have af> fumed.
Σελίδα 190 - Mi, fr of thefe rings are made of thick leather ftraps, generally cut in a circular fhape, which by being beat and held over the fire, are rendered tough enough to retain the curvature that is given them. It is...
Σελίδα 343 - Ajmeer, which passed frequently through the bazaar, or market, as he went by a certain herb-woman, always received from her a mouthful of greens. At length he was seized with one of his periodical fits of rage, broke from his fetters, and, running through the market, put the...
Σελίδα 191 - It may eafily be imagined, that thefe rings give the good Hottentot matrons a world of trouble, as well in the wear as in the preparation ; and at the fame time are not a little clumfy and ponderous, not to mention feveral other inconveniencies.
Σελίδα 195 - ... considered as any inconvenience to a Hottentot, who finds no difficulty in stooping and crawling on all fours, and who is at any time more inclined to lie dawn than stand. The fire-place is in the middle, and they sit or lie round it in a circle.
Σελίδα 203 - ... of the larger kinds of game for their prifoners, fuch as buffaloes, fea-cows, and the like. Such agreeable baits, together with a little tobacco, foon induce them, continually cockered and feafted as they are, to go with a tolerable degree of chearfulnefs to the colonift's place of abode.
Σελίδα 186 - The outermoft apron, which is chiefly intended for fhow and parade, reaches about half way down the thighs. The middle one is about a third, or one half lefs, and is faid by 'them to be neceflary by way of referve, and as an additional entrenchment of modefty, when their gala-garment is laid afide. The third, or innermoft, which is...
Σελίδα 189 - The ears of the Hottentots are never adorned with any pendant or other ornament hanging from them, any more than the nofe, as they both are among other...