 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...  The North American Review - Page 164edited by - 1850Full view - About this book
 | 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 have ; and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1850 - 566 pages
...win any one's affections. Of the people, he says, they " are « King, II. ISO. VOL. LXX. NO. 146. 15 the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods...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 bottle-noses,... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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.,... | |
 | Hakluyt Society - Australia - 1859 - 372 pages
...inhabitants cannot trouble them much, having neither boats nor iron. The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods...wealth are gentlemen to these ; who have no houses and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, etc., as the Hodmadods have ;... | |
 | William Howitt - Australia - 1865 - 450 pages
...but feed upon a few fish, cockles, muscles, and periwinkles. They are without religion or government. 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., as the Hodmadods have, and... | |
 | Samuel Bennett - Australia - 1865 - 710 pages
...inhabitants cannot trouble them much, having neither boats nor iron. " The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa, though a nastv people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these ; who have no houses and skin-garments, sheep,... | |
 | David Laing Purves - Discoveries in geography - 1874 - 856 pages
...inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods of llonomatapa,1 though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these, who have no 1 The Hottentots of the Cape. See Chapter XX., page 310. houses and skin garments, sheef>, poultry,... | |
 | Charles Henry Eden - Australia - 1877 - 332 pages
...inhabitants cannot trouble them much, having neither boats nor iron. " The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods...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 ;... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1879 - 724 pages
...country," he says,* " are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods [Hottentots] of Monomalapa, 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, <tc., as the Hwimadods have.... | |
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