| 1865 - 1040 páginas
...beating time on their little kilts of cowskin, others making a curious humming sound between the songs. Excepting this and the skippingrope, the play of the...amuse themselves in making little cattle-pens, or in moulding cattle in clay; they show great ingenuity in the imitation of various-shaped horns. Some,... | |
| London missionary society - 1867 - 872 páginas
...beating time on their little kilts of cow-skin, others making a curious humming sound between the songs. Excepting this and the skipping-rope, the play of...in miniature mortars, or hoeing tiny gardens. The boy splay with spears of reed pointed with wood, and small shields, or bows and arrows ; or amuse themselves... | |
| 1861 - 1132 páginas
...imitating the serious work of their mothers, building little huts, making little pots and cooking, and pounding corn in miniature mortars, or hoeing tiny...and arrows ; or amuse themselves in making little cattle pens, or in moulding cattle in clay. They show great ingenuity in the imitation of various shaped... | |
| David Livingstone, Charles Livingstone - 1865 - 664 páginas
...beating time on their little kilts of cowskin, others making a curious humming sound between the songs. Excepting this and the skipping-rope, the play of...amuse themselves in making little cattle-pens, or in moulding cattle in clay; they show great ingenuity in the imitation of various-shaped horns. Some... | |
| David Livingstone, Charles Livingstone - 1866 - 666 páginas
...beating time on their little kilts of cowskin, others making a curious humming sound between the songs. Excepting this and the skipping-rope, the play of...pointed with wood, and small shields, or bows and arrows ; 9r amuse themselves in making little cattle-pens, or in moulding cattle in clay : they show great... | |
| Frederick A. Laing - 1873 - 264 páginas
...cowskin, others making a curious humming sound between the songs. Excepting this and the skipping rope, the play of the girls consists in imitation of the...in miniature mortars, or hoeing tiny gardens. The hoys play with spurs of reeds pointed with wood, and small shields, or bows and arrows ; or amuse themselves... | |
| Robert Brown - 1873 - 714 páginas
...and others making a curious humming sound between the songs. Excepting this and the skipping-rolw, the play of the girls consists in imitation of the...building little huts, making small pots and cooking, and pounding corn in miniature mortars, or hoeing tiny gardens. The boys play with spears of re"eds... | |
| William Henry Giles Kingston - 1874 - 560 páginas
...time on their little skirts of cow-skin, and others making a curious humming sound between the songs. Excepting this and the skipping-rope, the play of the girls consists in imitating the serious work of their mothers — building little huts, making small pots and cooking,... | |
| Frederick A. Laing - 1881 - 264 páginas
...cowskin, others making a curious humming sound between the songs. Excepting this and the skipping rope, the play of the girls consists in imitation of the...mortars, or hoeing tiny gardens. The boys play with spurs of reeds pointed with wood, and small shields, or bows and arrows ; or amuse themselves in making... | |
| 1885 - 590 páginas
...time on their little kilts of cow-skin, and others making a curious humming sound between the songs. "Excepting this and the skipping-rope, the play of...building little huts, making small pots and cooking, and pounding corn in miniature mortars, or hoeing tiny gardens. The boys play with spears of reeds... | |
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