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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... "
The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand: From the ... - Page 66
by William Howitt - 1865
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A New Voyage Round the World, Volume 1

William Dampier - Buccaneers - 1699 - 592 pages
...Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of the Earth, Oftrich Eggs, &c. as the Hodmadods have : And fetting afide their human Shape, they differ but little from Brutes. They are tall, ftrait bodied, and thin, with fmall long Limbs. They have great Heads , round Foreheads, and great...
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Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind, Volume 5

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...&c. as the Hodmadods have ; and setting aside their humane shape, they differ but little from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small...
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History of the Oceanic and American nations. 1847

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...sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, 8cc. as the Hodmadods have; and setting aside their humane shape, they differ but little from brutes....
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The North American Review, Volume 70

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1850 - 566 pages
...people, he says, they " are « King, II. ISO. VOL. LXX. NO. 146. 15 the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa,* though a nasty people,...sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, &tc They have great bottle-noses, pretty full lips, and wide mouths, They are long-visaged, and of...
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The War of Races in Hungary: A Review of De L'esprit Public en Hongrie, Etc ...

Francis Bowen - 1850 - 738 pages
...to win any one's affections. Of the people, he says, they " are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa,* though a nasty people,...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 bottle-noses,...
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The Memoir and Writings of James Handasyd Perkins, Volume 2

James Handasyd Perkins - Ohio - 1851 - 540 pages
...to win any one's affections. Of the people he says, they " are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa,* though a nasty people,...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 bottle-noses,...
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The Memoir and Writings of James Handasyd Perkins, Volume 2

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 bottle-noses,...
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The Natural History of Man, Or, Popular Chapters on Ethnography, Volume 1

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 have ;...
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A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical: Of the ..., Volume 1

John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Commercial geography - 1851 - 1078 pages
...houses and skin garments, sheep, poultry, nd fruits of the earth, ostrich-eggs, &c., as (he lodmadods have ; and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes. "hey arc tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with mall long limbs. They have great heads, round orelieads,...
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A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the ..., Volume 1

John Ramsay McCulloch - Geography - 1854 - 1108 pages
...of this country," says he, " are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomotapa, though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these ; who e have no houses and skin garments, sheep, poultry, i | and fruits of the earth, ostrich-eggs, &c.,...
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