| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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