 | Madhusree Mukerjee - 2003 - 296 Seiten
...long sheltered a race of terrible reputation. "The people on this coast eat human flesh quite raw; their complexion is black, their hair frizzled, their countenance and eyes frightful, their feet are very large, and almost a cubit in length, and they go quite naked," related two Arabs in 850. "They... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1888 - 672 Seiten
...Arab writer of the ninth century previously alluded to states that "their complexion is frightful, their hair frizzled, their countenance and eyes frightful,...length, and they go quite naked," while Marco Polo (about 1 285) says that "the people are no better than wild beasts, and I assure you all the men of... | |
 | 1870 - 568 Seiten
...these two islands bet " the sea of Andaman. The people on this coast eat bunaa de»3i " quite raw ; their complexion is black, their hair frizzled• their " countenance and eyes frightful, their feet are very largie and alnxc-: " a cubit in length, and they go quite naked. They hare no sorts of " barks... | |
 | 1867 - 784 Seiten
...quoted by Prichard, would answer well for the Biloos of Burmah : "The people eat human flesh quite raw; their complexion is black, their hair frizzled, their countenance and eyes frightful ; their feet are almost a cubft in length, and they go qtrite naked." The comic element, however, always enters... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1797 - 610 Seiten
...through which Sindbad appears to have been fleering his courfe), the people eat human. flefh quiw raw, their complexion is black, their hair frizzled, their countenance and eyes frightful." Modern navigators likewife reprefeat many iflands in this bay as inhabited by cannibals, partiou]..)... | |
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Arab writer of the ninth century previously alluded to states that " their complexion is frightful, their hair frizzled, their countenance and eyes frightful, their feet very large, and almost a cubit in length, and they go quite naked... 
