A History of Our Relations with the Andamanese, Band 1

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Office of the Superintendent of Government Print., India, 1899 - 875 Seiten
 

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Seite 109 - Being much incommoded by insects, their first occupation in a morning is to plaistec their bodies all over with mud, which, hardening in the sun, forms an impenetrable armour ; they paint their woolly heads with red ochre and water : when thus completely dressed, a more hideous appearance is not to be found in human form.
Seite 54 - The other ship was driven through a channel between two of the same islands, and was not able to assist the shipwrecked men, but neither Fergusson nor any of his people were ever more heard of, which gave ground to conjecture that they were all devoured by those savage cannibals.
Seite 109 - Four sticks fixed in the ground are bound at top, and fastened transversely by others, to which branches of trees are suspended; an opening just large enough to admit of entrance is left on one side, and their bed is composed of leaves.
Seite 119 - It was with great difficulty we could prevent the cowardly rascals from firing : the tyndal was the only one who stood by the chief mate and myself. We advanced within a few paces of the natives, and made signs of drinking, to intimate the purpose of our visit. The tyndal salaamed to them, according to the different oriental modes of salutation ; he spoke to them in Malay, and other languages : they returned no answer, but continued crouching in their menacing attitude, pointing their weapons at...
Seite 108 - ... extreme of wretchedness, a horrid mixture of famine and ferocity. They go quite naked, and are insensible to any shame from exposure. " The few implements they use are of the rudest texture. Their principal weapon is a bow, from four to five feet long ; the string made of the fibres of a tree, or a slip of bamboo, with arrows of reed, headed with fish bone, or wood hardened in the fire.
Seite 70 - ... and attack them. In these skirmishes they display much resolution, and will sometimes plunge into the water to seize the boat; and they have been known even to discharge their arrows while in the act of swimming. Their mode of life is degrading to human nature, and, like brutes, their whole time is spent in search of food. They have yet made no attempts to cultivate their lands, but live entirely upon what they can pick up, or kill. In the morning they .rub their skins with mud, and wallow in...
Seite 107 - In stature, they seldom exceed five feet; their limbs are disproportionably slender, their bellies protuberant, with high shoulders and large heads ; and, strange to find in this part of the world, they are a degenerate race of negroes with woolly hair, flat noses, and thick lips ; their eyes are small and red, their skin of a deep sooty black, whilst their countenances exhibit the extreme of wretchedness : a horrid mixture of famine and ferocity. They go quite naked, and are insensible of any shame...
Seite 108 - Wine and spirituous liquors were disagreeable to them; no food seemed so palatable as fish, rice, and sugar. In a few weeks, having recovered strength and become fat, from the more than...
Seite 69 - ... under their hands. No positive instance, however, has been known of their eating the flesh of their enemies ; although the bodies of some whom they have killed, have been found mangled and torn.
Seite 119 - ... we turned. I held out my handkerchief towards them, but they would not come from behind the bushes to take it. I placed it upon the ground, and we retired in order to allow them to pick it up : still they did not move.

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