The Natural History of Man: AfricaGeorge Routledge and Sons, 1868 - 864 páginas |
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Abeokuta Abyssinians animal arms arrows assagai beads Bechuanas Bedouin body Bosjesman Caboceers calabash called Camma canoe carried cattle ceremony charms chief cloth colour consequence contrived cowries curious custom Damaras dance death decorated Dingan Dinka dress Egbas elephant enemy European fastened father feet fetish fire girl hair hand head hippopotamus horn Hottentot hunters hyæna illustration inches inhabitants iron Kaffir kaross killed kind king kraal Krumen leather length look maize Makololo manner mentioned mode Mpongwé native nearly negro never ordinary ornaments Ovambos oxen passed peculiar piece pipe poison possess prophet remarkable river round savage scarcely seen Sekeletu shape shield side skin slaves soldiers sometimes soon Southern Africa spear specimen spirit spot stick strange Tchaka thongs traveller tree tribes Unyoro village warriors weapons wear whole wife wives woman women wood wound Zulu
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Página 84 - I will be master of what is mine own. She is my goods, my chattels; she is my house, My household stuff, my field, my barn, My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything...
Página 693 - The sheikh's negroes, as they were called, meaning the black chiefs and favourites, all raised to that rank by some deed of bravery, were habited in coats of mail composed of iron chain, which covered them from the throat to the knees, dividing behind, and coming on each side of the horse : some of them had helmets, or rather skull-caps, of the same metal, with chin- pieces, all sufficiently strong to ward off the shock of a spear. Their horses...
Página 447 - After a long and amusing conversation with Rumanika in the morning, I called on one of his sisters-in-law, married to an elder brother who was born before Dagara ascended the throne. She was another of those wonders of obesity, unable to stand excepting on all fours. I was desirous to obtain a good view of her, and actually to measure her, and induced her to give me facilities for doing so, by offering in return to show her a bit of my naked legs and arms.
Página 361 - So fleet of foot was he, that all his people knew there was no escape for the coward, as any such would be cut down without mercy. In some instances of skulking, he allowed the individual to return home ; then calling him, he would say, 'Ah! you prefer dying at home to dying in the field, do you?
Página 307 - They had proceeded some distance on their journey, when a troop of wild horses (zebras), appeared, and the man said to the woman, ' I am hungry; and as I know you can turn yourself into a lion, do so now, and catch us a wild horse, that we may eat.
Página 36 - ... I spare your life ; he has travelled from a far country to see me, and he has made my heart white ; but he tells me that to take away life, is an awful thing, and never can be undone again.
Página 243 - I gazed at her form, that gift of bounteous nature to this favoured race, which no mantua-maker, with all her crinoline and stuffing, can do otherwise than humbly imitate. '•' The object of my admiration stood under a tree, and was turning herself about to all points of the compass, as ladies who wish to be admired usually do. Of a sudden my eye...
Página 462 - ... of which he took constant and copious draughts from neat little gourd-cups, administered by his ladies-in-waiting, who were at once his sisters and wives. A white dog, spear, shield, and woman - the Uganda cognisance - were by his side, as also a knot of staff officers, with whom he kept up a brisk conversation on one side ; and on the other was a band of Wichwezi, or lady-sorcerers, such as I have already described.
Página 368 - The children have merry times, especially in the cool of- the evening. One of their games consists of a little girl being carried on the shoulders of two others. She sits with outstretched arms, as they walk about with her,, and all the rest clap their hands, and stopping before each hut, sing pretty airs, some beating time on their little kilts of cow-skin, and others making a curious humming sound between the songs.
Página 691 - Kaffir countries, by which he was surrounded, and which he was enabled to subdue by the assistance of a few Arabs who were in his service; and, again, we had been assured that his forces were not only numerous, but to a certain degree well trained.