 | General history - 1814 - 798 σελίδες
...of the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans; though rather of that pale effete cast which distinguishes those of our southern nations. Their...the particular animation attending that period of lite ; for, after attaining a certain age, there is hardly any distinction. Upon the whole, a very... | |
 | James Haines McCulloh - 1829 - 548 σελίδες
...the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans, though rather of that pale effete cast, which distinguishes those of our southern nations. Their...children, whose skins had never been stained with paint, equalled ours in whiteness." (Cook's Voyage, New Hemisphere, ii. 303.) Sebastian Vizcaino says, at... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 654 σελίδες
...of the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans, though rather of that pale effete cast which distinguishes those of our southern nations. Their...Upon the whole, a very remarkable sameness seems to characterise the countenances of the whole nation, a dull phlegmatic want of expression, with very... | |
 | James Cook - 1842 - 644 σελίδες
...of the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans, though rather of that pale effete cast which distinguishes those of our southern nations. Their...compared to the generality of the people ; but this scems to be entirely owing to the particular animation attending that period of life, for after attaining... | |
 | James Cowles Prichard - 1847 - 602 σελίδες
...almost equal to that of Europeans ; though rather of the pale effete cast, which distinguishes that of our southern nations. Their children whose skins had never been stained also equalled ours in whiteness. A very remarkable sameness seems to characterize the whole nation,... | |
 | John Ormsby Miller - 1902 - 176 σελίδες
...dirt, though in particular cases the whiteness of the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans. Their children, whose skins had never been stained with paint, also equalled ours in whiteness. . . . Their common dress is a flaxen garment or mantle, ornamented on the upper edge by a narrow strip... | |
 | Dror Wahrman - 2004 - 444 σελίδες
...these were well rubbed off, the whiteness of the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans. . . . Their children, whose skins had never been stained with paint, also equalled ours in whiteness." Or Cook yet again, on the inhabitants of the island of Tanna: "They make themselves blacker than they... | |
 | 315 σελίδες
...of the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans; though rather of that pale effete cast which distinguishes those of our Southern nations. Their...stained with paint, also equalled ours in whiteness. . . . Upon the whole, a very remarkable sameness seems to characterize the countenances of the whole... | |
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Their colour we could never positively determine, as their bodies were incrusted with paint and dirt ; though, in particular cases, when these were well rubbed off, the whiteness of the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans, though rather of... 