Curiosities of Savage Life, Volume 1S.O. Beeton, 1865 - 418 pages |
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Abyssinian African animal appearance arms assegai baby Bitara body breast buffalo Caffre calabash called cannibal canoe carried ceremony chief child civilized cocoa-nut colour Cree custom Damara dance dancers Dayak death drum enemy eyes face father feast feet Figian fire friends hair hand head hole inches killed legs lodge Mahtotopa maize Majapahit Makololo Mandan marriage meat medicine medicine bag mother mouth naked native never night North American Indian Ojibbeway ornaments painted palm wine party performed person piece pipe pipe-stem poor present priest round Samoan savage savage nation scalp Sekeletu shoulders side singing skin smoke song soon soul spear spirit sticks stone Talanga terrible thee thing thou Tonga took torture tree tribe turn turtle Tutanekai village warrior whole wife wigwam woman women young Zealand
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Page 36 - belonging to the Katahbas, busily hunting game; on his perceiving them, he sprung off for a hollow rock four or five miles distant, as they intercepted him from running homeward. He was so extremely swift and skilful with the gun as to kill seven of them in the running fight before they were able to
Page 36 - skilful with the gun as to kill seven of them in the running fight before they were able to overtake him.' They carried him to their country in sad triumph ; for though he had filled them with uncommon grief and shame for the loss of so many of their kindred, yet the love
Page 37 - sharp torments for which he was destined, would have so impaired his health and affected his imagination as to have sent him to his long sleep, out of the way of any more sufferings. Probably this would have Diving for Life. , been the case with the major part
Page 384 - but not the big ones; the Governor will give anything for them.' then tied up the papers. He then said: ' Give me paper and I will write.' I gave him paper and a pencil, and he tried to write, and then he fell back and died, and I caught him as he fell back and held him.
Page 326 - the drivers suddenly tripped up the cow, and gave the poor animal a very rude fall upon the ground, which was but the beginning of her sufferings. One of them sat across her neck, holding down her head by the
Page 118 - At the base of this wall there is a level prairie, of half a mile in width, running parallel to it, in any, and in all parts of which, the Indians procure the red stone for their pipes, by digging through the soil and several slatey layers of the
Page 334 - We have seen this to be the case with the Abyssinian, and an even more striking example is furnished by the North American. With this barbarian, as says a modern traveller, "The pot is always boiling over the fire, and any one who is hungry (either of the household or from any other part of the
Page 364 - When the case was referred to me, I paid the value of the goods, and sentenced the thief to work out an equivalent with his hoe in a garden. Thieves are now condemned to raise an amount of corn in proportion to their offences." So says Dr. Livingstone. Of all phases of " law,
Page 384 - Give me paper and I will write.' I gave him paper and a pencil, and he tried to write, and then he fell back and died, and I caught him as he fell back and held him.
Page 230 - Mr. Mariner to turn his back and look another way, he gave the man the^* paper and desired him to tell what that was; he accordingly pronounced—^ aloud the name of the king, upon which Finow snatched the paper