A Narrative of Four Journeys Into the Country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria: In the Years One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-seven, Eight, and NineJ. Johnson, 1789 - 171 sayfa |
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A Narrative of Four Journeys Into the Country of the Hottentots and ... William Paterson Metin Parçacığı görünümü - 1978 |
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60 Ditto afternoon almoſt Aloe Dichotoma alſo animals arrived arrows Atlantic Ocean Auguft Bokke Boſhmen Caffres called Calm Cape cattle Colonel Gordon confifted continued our journey courfe croffed directed our courſe diſcovered diſtance Dutch eaſt eaſtward excurfion fame fandy plain fearch feet feveral fhade fhore fhot fide firſt fiſh fituation fize fleſh flower fmall fnow foil fome fometimes foon fpecies freſh froft fuch Heavy rain Hippopotamus horſes Hottentots houſe huts inhabited Kloaf Kraal left the waggon Lions miles Mimoſa morning moſt mountains myſelf N. W. Cloudy Nimiqua Land noon northward obferved Orange River ourſelves oxen paffed peaſant plants poiſon proceeded purpoſe refidence refted Renan reſted S. E. Clear ſaw ſcarcely ſeaſon ſeen ſeveral ſhot ſkin ſmall ſome ſpecies ſtayed all night Strong N. W. thefe themſelves Therm Thermom theſe thoſe thouſand travelling uſe Van Renan vifited weather weft weftward woods
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Sayfa 134 - I had the curiosity to break down, to inform myself of the internal structure of it, and found it equally ingenious with that of the external. There are many entrances, each of which forms a regular street, with nests on both sides, at about two inches
Sayfa 19 - ... 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...
Sayfa 30 - ... as the lion : this noble animal thus falling by a weapon which, perhaps, it defpifed, or even did not take notice of. The Hottentot, in the mean time, concealed...
Sayfa 17 - Rings of iron or copper, but efpecially of brafs, of the fize of a goofe-quill, are confidered as genteeler and more valuable than thofe made of leather. They are, however, fometimes worn along with thefe latter, to the number of fix or eight at a time, particularly on the arms. The girls are not allowed to ufe any rings, till they are marriageable. A traveller, that was...
Sayfa 134 - I believe the seed of it to be their principal food ; though, on examining their nests, I found the wings and legs of different insects. From every appearance, the nest which I dissected had been inhabited for many years ; and some parts...
Sayfa 169 - THOUGH there are few countries in the world which abound more with deleterious vegetables than the country adjacent to the Cape of Good Hope, yet the principal danger, to the traveller, refults from the animated part of the creation ; he can always avoid the one, when he cannot apprehend the other. I am only acquainted with four of the former kind, which are commonly employed as inftruments of deftruction. The...
Sayfa 19 - Hottentots likewife have this additional advantage, that when they fit or lie in a circle round the fire, the whole company equally enjoys the benefit of its warmth.
Sayfa 19 - ... effect in preventing their breafts from being difturbed by this baneful paffion. Every hut is difpofed in the following manner. Some of them are of a circular, and others of an oblong fliape, refembling a round bee-hive or a vault. The ground-plot is from eighteen to twenty-four feet in diameter. The higheft of them are fo low, that even in the center of the arch, it is fcarcely ever poffible for a middle-fized man to ftand upright.
Sayfa 13 - Mozombiques; and their mouth is of the middling size, with the finest set of teeth imaginable. Their heads are covered with hair more woolly, if possible, than that of the negroes. With respect to shape, carriage, and every motion, their whole appearance indicates health and content.
Sayfa 17 - 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.