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" Their hair is black, short and curled, like that of the Negroes, and not long and lank like the common Indians. The colour of their skins, both of their faces and the rest of their body, is coal black, like that of the Negroes of Guinea. "
The Fifth Continent, with the Adjacent Islands: Being an Account of ... - Page 250
by Charles Henry Eden - 1877 - 316 pages
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A New Voyage Round the World, Volume 1

William Dampier - Buccaneers - 1699 - 592 pages
...long and lank like the common Indians. The colour of their Skins, both of their Faces and the reft of their Body, is coal black, like that of the Negroes of Guinea. They have no fort of Cloaths ^ bnt a piece of the rind of a Tree ty'd like a Girdle about their Waifts , and a handful...
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A new voyage round the world. Vol. 1 [of Dampier's voyages.]., Volume 1

William Dampier - Australia - 1703 - 774 pages
...long and lank lite the common Indians. The colour of their Skins, both of their Faces and the reft of their Body, is coal black, like that of the Negroes of Guinea. They have no fort of Cloaths, but a piece of the Rind of a Tree ty'd like a Girdle about their Waifis, and a handful...
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A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and ..., Volume 11

John Pinkerton - Discoveries in geography - 1812 - 1030 pages
...reft of their body, is coal-black, like that of the negroes of Guinea. They have no fort of cloaths but a piece of the rind of a tree tied like a girdle about their waifts, and a handful of long grafs, or three or four fmall green boughs full of leaves, thruft under...
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 2

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 1008 pages
...hazagaeye and kalawaeys." Dampier describes them as being " a naked black people, with curly hair, having a piece of the rind of a tree tied like a girdle about their waists, and a handful of long grass, or three or four green boughs full of leaves thrust under their...
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Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier: Including an ...

Christian Isobel Johnstone - America - 1831 - 476 pages
...curled, like that of negroes ; and the colour of their skins coal-black, like that of the negroes in Guinea. They have no sort of clothes, but a piece of the rind of a tree tied as a girdle about their waists, into which is thrust a handful of long grass or small green leafy boughs....
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Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier

Christian Isobel Johnstone - America - 1837 - 446 pages
...hair is black, short, and curled, like that of negroes ; and the colour of their skins coal-black, like that of the negroes of Guinea. They have no sort...the rind of a tree tied like a girdle about their waists, and a handful of long grass, or three or four small green boughs full of leaves thrust under...
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Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind, Volume 5

James Cowles Prichard - Anthropology - 1847 - 602 pages
...not long and lank, like that of the common Indians. The colour of their skins, both of their faces and the rest of their body, is coal black, like that of the Negroes of New Guinea. " They have no sort of clothes, but a piece of the rind of a tree tied like a girdle about...
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A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical: Of the ..., Volume 1

John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Commercial geography - 1851 - 1078 pages
...īndians. The colour of their skins, both of their aces and the rest of their body, is coal black, ike that of the negroes of Guinea. They have no sort of clothes, but a piece of the rhind of a tree tied like a girdle about their waists, and a handful of long grass, or three or four...
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Flowers from foreign lands; their history and botany

Robert Tyas - 1853 - 246 pages
...not long and lank, like that of the common Indians. The colour of their skins, both of their faces and the rest of their body, is coal black, like that...the rind of a tree tied like a girdle about their waists, and a handful of long grass, or three or four small green boughs full of leaves, thrust under...
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Flowers from foreign lands; their history and botany

Robert Tyas - Floriculture - 1853 - 240 pages
...not long and lank, like that of the common Indians. The colour of their skins, both of their faces and the rest of their body, is coal black, like that...the rind of a tree tied like a girdle about their waists, and a handful of long grass, or three or four small green boughs full of leaves, thrust under...
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