 | Ethnology - 1861 - 396 pages
...savages : " It was," says he, " without exception, the most curious and interesting spectacle I had ever beheld. I could not have believed how wide was...between savage and civilized man. It is greater than that between a wild and a domesticated animal, inasmuch as in man there is a greater power of improvement.... | |
 | Titus Coan - Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) - 1880 - 344 pages
...their wild cry. ... " In the morning the captain sent a party to communicate with the Fuegians. . . . When we were on shore the party looked rather alarmed,...was the difference between savage and civilized man. . . . • The party altogether closely resembled the devils which come on the stage in plays like Der... | |
 | Titus Coan - Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) - 1880 - 346 pages
...to communicate with the Fuegians. . . . When we were on shore the party looked rather alarmed, put continued talking and making gestures with great rapidity....was the difference between savage and civilized man. . . . The party altogether closely resembled the devils which come on the stage in plays like Der Fretschutz.... | |
 | Church of England - 1883 - 858 pages
...entitled ' A Naturalist's Voyage,' he makes the following remarks, which we extract from that volume: ' It was without exception the most curious and interesting...believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man; it is greater t lian between a wild and domesticated animal, inasmuch as in man there... | |
 | Robert Young (of the Free ch. of Scotland.) - 1883 - 456 pages
...his impressions of the physical, mental, and moral condition of the natives of Tierra del Fuego— " It was without exception the most curious and interesting...ever beheld. I could not have believed how wide was 1 The first attempts to instruct and christianize the Fuegians, it has been stated, were made by Admiral... | |
 | Edward Woodall - Naturalists - 1884 - 100 pages
...the most curious and interesting spectacle" he ever beheld. " I could not have believed," he says, " how wide was the difference between savage and civilized...and domesticated animal, inasmuch as in man there is greater power of improvement." In Tierra del Fuego Mr. Darwin had many opportunities of studying man... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Great Britain - 1885 - 502 pages
...thus gives us his impressions of what, in 1832, he saw of the natives of Terra del Fuego " : — " It was without exception the most curious and interesting...have believed how wide was the difference between the savage and civilized man : it is greater than between a wild and domesticated animal, inasmuch... | |
 | Science - 1890 - 906 pages
...alarmed, but continued talking ^ and making gestures with great rapidity. It was without excep, tion the most curious and interesting spectacle I ever...beheld : I could not have believed ,how wide was the djiflEerenceJbetween savage and civilized man : it is greater than between a wild ajuTtlomesticated... | |
 | James Wells - Missionaries - 1908 - 522 pages
...that I was a sort of a Christian.' He liked to place side by side a heathen and a Christian Fuegian. ' It was without exception the most curious and interesting...believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man. It seems yet wonderful to me when I think over all his (a Fuegian convert's) many good... | |
 | James Wells - Lovedale (South Africa) - 1909 - 526 pages
...that I was a sort of a Christian.' He liked to place side by side a heathen and a Christian Fuegian. ' It was without exception the most curious and interesting...believed how wide was the difference between savage and civilised man. It seems yet wonderful to me when I think over all his (a Fuegian convert's) many good... | |
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When we were on shore the party looked rather alarmed, but continued talking and making gestures with great rapidity. It was without exception the most curious and interesting spectacle I ever beheld: I could not have believed how wide was the difference... 
