...they had any great liking to them at first, neither did they seem to admire any thing that we had. The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods [Hottentots] of Monomatapa, though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these; who have...

...the coast of New Holland is a collection of absent things. He produces a litany of that which is not: "no Houses, and skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of the Earth, Ostrich-Eggs ... no Instruments to catch great Fish . . . there is neither Herb, Root, Pulse nor any...

...between European expectation and antipodean fact. He saw them as the most miserable people on earth "who have no Houses and Skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of the Earth... setting aside their human shape they differ but little from Brutes. . . Their Eye-lids are always half...

...William Dampier, an English privateer who visited Australia's northwest coast in 1688 and again in 1699. "The Inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the World," he claimed in a best-seller about his adventures. "Their Eye-lids are always half closed, to keep the...

...experience of the indigenous population could hardly have been more different from that of Quirós. The Inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the World . . . setting aside their Humane Shape, they differ but little from Brutes. They are tall, strait-bodied,...

...much-quoted passage in which he compared them unfavourably with the Hottentots of south-western Africa: The inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest...Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of the Earth, Ostrich Eggs, &c. as the Hodmadods have: And setting aside their Humane Shape, they differ but little from Brutes.7...

...Australians is that of Dampier, who visited New Holland in the unhappy year 1688. He found the natives ' the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods,...wealth are gentlemen to these: who have no houses, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth. . . . They have no houses, but lie in the open air.' Curiously...

...having neither boats nor iron. The inhabitants he regarded as 'the miserablest people in the world . . . who have no houses, and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, etc'. Though his European ideas about quality of life rendered his impressions of them unfavourable,...

...and produced another book. Dampier paints a grim picture of the arid northwest and its naked people: The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods 5 [Hottentots of Africa] . . . for wealth are gentlemen to these. They have no houses, or skin garments,...

...willingness to discover some mutually advantageous trading terms with the visitors. But he was disappointed: The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest People in the world. The Hodtnadods of Monotnatapa, though a nasty People, yet for Wealth are Gentlemen to these; who have no...