The World Displayed; Or, A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, Selected from the Writers of All Nations: In which the Conjectures and Interpolations of Several Vain Editors and Translators are Expunged, Every Relation is Made Concise and Plain, and the Divisions of Countries and Kingdoms are Clearly and Distinctly Noted. Illustrated and Embellished with Variety of Maps and Prints by the Best Hands..J. Newbery, 1759 |
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Sivu 52 - Dutch in a-few years extended themfelves in new colonies along the coaft. They now form four principal fettlements : The firft is at the Cape, where are the grand forts, and the...
Sivu 78 - It is of the fize of a child's little finger : the back is green, and the belly fpeckled •with red and white. It has two wings, and two horns on its head.
Sivu 63 - Buchu ; and this being done, they are beaus and grandees, and appear in their utmoft magnificence. As the hair of the women is...
Sivu 106 - ... sometimes do not discover the motion of his tail till it is too late ; but if a Lion shakes not his mane, nor lashes himself with his tail, a traveller may pass safely by him. If we could drive a bargain with the Felis Leo that he should always thus signal to travellers, we might pass through the African wilderness with less risk than at the present time.
Sivu 87 - When the father, or the generality of the men of a kraal, refolve to call a young man into their fociety, all the inhabitants aflemble in the middle of a kraal, and fit upon the ground in a circle.
Sivu 84 - York, 1813, p. 109.) a little upon him. The bridegroom receiving the stream with eagerness rubs it all over his body, and makes furrows with his long nails that the urine may penetrate the farther. The priest then goes to the outer circle and evacuates a little upon the bride, who rubs it in with the same eagerness as the bridegroom. To him the priest then returns, and having streamed a little more, goes again to the bride and again scatters his water upon her. Thus he proceeds from one to the other...
Sivu 100 - ... thin piece of iron bearded and joined to the ftick or cane by a barrel. Their bows are made of olive or iron-wood; and the firings, of the finews or entrails of beafts, faftened to a flrong wooden or iron hook at each extremity of the bow.
Sivu 83 - The men then fquat on the ground in a circle, the bridegroom fquatting in the center : the women at fome diftance alfo fquat in a circle about the bride. At length the prieft, who lives at the bride's kraal, enters the circle of the men ; and coming up to the bridegroom, pifles a little upon him.
Sivu 125 - On rummaging the veflel, he found only a few. crumbs of bread, ten gallons of rum, a little rice, and fome flour, with two gallons of water. With much labour he patched up a kind of fail in...
Sivu 91 - When the corpse is read}' to be brought out, all the men and women of the village, except such as are immediately engaged in the melancholy rites, assemble before the door of the hut ; and squatting in two circles, the men in one, and the women in another, they clap their hands, exclaiming, in doleful accents, " Bo ! bo ! bo! or Father! father! father!