 | Theology - 1829 - 434 pages
...the following account of the natives of part of the North West Coast, as quoted by Captain King. ' " The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world."—" Setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes. They are tall, strait bodied,... | |
 | James Cowles Prichard - Anthropology - 1847 - 602 pages
...described the inhabitants of the coast about the twenty-fifth degree to the southward of the line. " The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomotapa, though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these ; who have no houses and skin... | |
 | James Cowles Prichard - Anthropology - 1847 - 602 pages
...The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomotapa, though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these; who have no houses and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, &c. as the Hodmadods... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1850 - 738 pages
...neither soil nor inhabitants being such as to win any one's affections. Of the people, he says, they " are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods...yet for wealth are gentlemen to these, who have no houses and skin-garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, &c They have great... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1850 - 554 pages
...any one's affections. Of the people, he says, they " are* King, II. 180. VOL. LXX. — NO. 146. 15 the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods...yet for wealth are gentlemen to these, who have no houses and skin-garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, &tc They have great... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins - Ohio - 1851 - 524 pages
...neither soil nor inhabitants being such as to win any one's affections. Of the people he says, they " are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods...yet for wealth are gentlemen to these, who have no houses and skin-garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, &c. They have great... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins - Ohio - 1851 - 516 pages
...he says, they u are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods of * King, Vol. II. p. 180. Monomatapa,* though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these, who have no houses and skin-garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, &c. They have great... | |
 | John Kennedy - Ethnology - 1851 - 318 pages
...human family. Dampier calls them "the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomotapa, though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these, who have no houses and skin-garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich-eggs, &c., as the Hodmadods... | |
 | Robert Tyas - 1853 - 246 pages
...Europeans induces us to present the reader with the following graphic description of them from Dampier. " The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world; they have no houses or skin garments, no sheep, poultry, fruits of the earth, etc.; and setting aside... | |
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The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa,* though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these; who have no houses and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich... 
