 | William Dampier - Buccaneers - 1699 - 592 pages
...they hold up their Heads, as if they were looking at fomewhat over them. They have great Bottle Nofes, pretty full Lips, and wide Mouths. The two fore-teeth...upper Jaw are wanting in all of them, Men and Women , Qld and Young } whether they draw them Out, I know not : Neither have they any Beards. The are long... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 416 pages
...clothes; black, tall, thin, straight bodied, 'with small limbs, great heads, and heavy brows.' Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes, which are here so troublesome, that no fanning will drive them away from the face ; and without the... | |
 | William Desborough Cooley - Discoveries (in geography) - 1830 - 386 pages
...straight bodied, thin, with long limbs; they have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows; their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes (for they are so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from one's face), so that, from their... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - America - 1831 - 476 pages
...straight-bodied and thin, with long small limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows. Their eye-lids are always half closed to keep the flies out of their eyes, so that they never open their eyes like other people ; and therefore they cannot see far, unless they... | |
 | Simpkin, Marshall & Co - 1832 - 1114 pages
...straight-bodied, thin, with long limbs ; they have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows ; their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes (for they are so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from one's face), so that, from their... | |
 | William Henry Breton - 1833 - 502 pages
...straight bodied, thin, with long limbs ; they have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows ; their eyelids are always half closed to keep the flies out of their eyes, (for they are so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from one's face,) so that, from their... | |
 | William Henry Breton - Aboriginal Australians - 1834 - 446 pages
...straight bodied, thin, with long limbs ; they have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows ; their eyelids are always half closed to keep the flies out of their eyes, (for they are so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from one's face,) so that, from their... | |
 | William Henry Breton - Australia - 1835 - 454 pages
...straight bodied, thin, with long limbs; they have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows ; their eyelids are always half closed to keep the flies out of their eyes, (for they are so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them from one's face,) so that, from their... | |
 | John Lort Stokes - Australia - 1846 - 580 pages
...expression of their countenance, and quite justifies the correctness of Dampier's account : — " Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes, they being so troublesome here, that no fanning will keep them from coming to one's face ; and without the... | |
 | James Cowles Prichard - Anthropology - 1847 - 602 pages
...straight-bodied, and thin, with small long limbs. They have great heads, round foreheads, and great brows. Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes, they being so troublesome here, that no fanning will keep them from coming to one's face, and without the... | |
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Their eyelids are always half closed, to keep the flies out of their eyes, they being so troublesome here, that no fanning will keep them from coming to one's face; and without the assistance of both hands to keep them off, they will creep into one's... 
