| Congregational churches - 1832 - 480 pages
...Borneo. Further towards the north of Borneo, are to be found men living absolutely in a state of nature, who neither cultivate the ground, nor live in huts;...who do not associate with each other, but rove about the woods like wild beasts. The sexes me»t in the jungle, or the man carries away a woman from some... | |
| Great Britain - 1853 - 572 pages
...are to be found men living absolutely in a state of nature, who neither cultivate the ground nor lire in huts : who neither eat rice nor salt, and who do not associate with each other, but rove about the woods like wild beasts. The domestic relation is sufficiently promiscuous — the man frequently... | |
| American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...OF BORNEO : " Further towards the north are to be found men living absolutely in a state of nature, who neither cultivate the ground, nor live in huts...for themselves, they usually separate, neither one afterwards thinking of the other. At night they sleep under some large tree the branches of which hang... | |
| George Windsor Earl - Ethnology - 1853 - 288 pages
...: " Farther towards the north of Borneo are to be found men living absolutely in a state of nature, who neither cultivate the ground nor live in huts...jungle, or the man carries away a woman from some kampong. When the children are old enough to shift for themselves they usually separate, neither one... | |
| 1853 - 158 pages
...Chronicle, who stales, that towards the north are to be found men living absolutely in a state of nature, who neither cultivate the ground nor live in huts...who do not associate with each other, but rove about the woods like wild PROGRESS OF SOCIETY. beasts. The domestic relation is sufi ciently promiscuous—... | |
| George Windsor Earl - Ethnology - 1853 - 294 pages
...like wild beasts. The sexes meet in the jungle, or the man carries away a woman from some kampong. When the children are old enough to shift for themselves they usually separate, neither one afterwards thinking of the other; at night they sleep under some large tree, the branches of which... | |
| Charles Pickering - Ethnology - 1854 - 564 pages
...words : — " Further towards the north are to be found men living absolutely in a state of nature, who neither cultivate the ground, nor live in huts...for themselves, they usually separate, neither one afterwards thinking of the other. At night they sleep under some large tree, the branches of which... | |
| 1858 - 754 pages
...BORNEO:" — " Further towards the north are to be found men living absolutely in a state of nature, who neither cultivate the ground nor live in huts; who neither eat riee nor salt ; and who do not associate with each other, but rove about the woods like wild beasts.... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...OF BORNEO : " Further towards the north are to be found men living absolutely in a state of nature, who neither cultivate the ground, nor live in huts...for themselves, they usually separate, neither one afterwards thinking of the other. At night they sleep under some large tree the branches of which hang... | |
| James Bonwick - Aboriginal Tasmanians - 1870 - 368 pages
...living absolutely in a state of nature, so called, who neither cultivate the ground nor live in tents ; who neither eat rice nor salt, and who do not associate...other, but rove about some woods like wild beasts." They were, in short, as savage as the tree-climbers seen by the Dutch in New Guinea. Mr. Earl has a... | |
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