| William Dampier - Buccaneers - 1699 - 592 pages
...the Lips are not fhut very clofe. So that from their Infancy being thus annoyed with thefe Infe&s, they do never open their Eyes, as other People : And therefore they cannot fee far } unlefs they hold up their Heads, as if they were looking at fomewhat over them. They have... | |
| William Dampier - Australia - 1703 - 774 pages
...the Lips are not flint very clofe : So that from their Infancy being thus annoyed with thefe Infefts, they do never open their Eyes, as other People : And therefore they cannot fee far^ unlefs they hold up their Heads, as if they were looking at fomewhat over them. They have... | |
| John Pinkerton - Discoveries in geography - 1812 - 1030 pages
...the lips are not (hut very clofe ; fo that from their infancy being thus annoyed with thefe infeds they do never open their eyes as other people : and therefore they cannot fee far unlefs they hold up their heads, as if they were looking at fomewhat over them. They have great... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...being thus annoyed with those insects, they never open their eyes like other people, and consequently cannot see far, unless they hold up their heads as if they were looking at something over them. They have great bottle noses, pretty full, and wide mouths ; are long visaged,... | |
| Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 pages
...them from one's face), so that, from their infancy, they never open their eyes as other people do, and therefore they cannot see far unless they hold up their heads as if they were looking at something over them. They have great bottlenoses, full lips, wide mouths ; the two fore-teeth of the... | |
| William Henry Breton - 1833 - 502 pages
...keep them from one's face,) so that, from their infancy, they never open their eyes as some people do, and therefore they cannot see far unless they hold up their heads, as if they were looking at something over them. They have great bottle-noses, full lips, wide mouths ; the two fore-teeth of the... | |
| William Henry Breton - Aboriginal Australians - 1834 - 446 pages
...keep them from one's face,) so that, from their infancy, they never open their eyes as some people do, and therefore they cannot see far unless they hold up their heads, as if they were looking at something over them. They have great bottle-noses, full lips, wide mouths ; the two fore-teeth of the... | |
| William Henry Breton - Aboriginal Australians - 1834 - 448 pages
...infancy, they never open their eyes as some people do, and therefore they 166 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. cannot see far unless they hold up their heads, as if they were looking at something over them. They have great bottle-noses, full lips, wide mouths ; the two fore-teeth of the... | |
| William Henry Breton - Australia - 1835 - 454 pages
...keep them from one's face,) so that, from their infancy, they never open their eyes as some people do, and therefore they cannot see far unless they hold up their heads, as if they were looking at something over them. They .have great bottle-noses, full lips, wide mouths ; the two fore-teeth of... | |
| John Lort Stokes - Australia - 1846 - 580 pages
...hands to keep them off, they will creep into one's nostrils, and mouth too, if the lips are not shut very close ; so that from their infancy, being thus...with these insects, they do never open their eyes as do other people, and therefore they cannot see far unless they hold up their heads, as if they were... | |
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