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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 eggs... "
Heroes of maritime discovery; or, Chapters in the history of ocean adventure ... - Page 113
by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882
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Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind, Volume 5

James Cowles Prichard - Anthropology - 1847 - 602 pages
...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...&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
...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...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
...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...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 Natural History of Man, Or, Popular Chapters on Ethnography, Volume 1

John Kennedy - Ethnology - 1851 - 318 pages
...these, who have no houses and skin-garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich-eggs, &c., as the Hodmadods have ; and, setting aside their...human shape, they differ but little from brutes." Mr. Wilkes, of the United States Exploring Expedition, says — " The natives of Australia differ from...
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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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Flowers from foreign lands; their history and botany

Robert Tyas - Floriculture - 1853 - 240 pages
...in the world; they have no houses or skin garments, no sheep, poultry, fruits of the earth, etc. ; and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small, long limbs ; they have great heads, round foreheads,...
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Flowers from foreign lands; their history and botany

Robert Tyas - 1853 - 246 pages
...in the world; they have no houses or skin garments, no sheep, poultry, fruits of the earth, etc. ; and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small, long limbs ; they have great heads, round foreheads,...
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Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society

Hakluyt Society - Australia - 1859 - 372 pages
...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...sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, etc., as the Hodmadods have ; and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes....
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Early Voyages to Terra Australis, Now Called Australia: A Collection of ...

Richard Henry Major - Australia - 1859 - 356 pages
...who have no houses and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, etc., as the Hodmadods have ; and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small long limbs. They have great head, round foreheads,...
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The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand ..., Volume 1

William Howitt - Australia - 1865 - 450 pages
...without religion or government. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa, though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these, who have no houses, and skin...their human shape, they differ but little from brutes. They are tall, straight-bodied, and thin, with small, long limbs. They have great round foreheads,...
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