 | Richard Lansdown - Travel - 2006 - 450 pages
...by William Dampier's description of the indigenous inhabitants of Western Australia quoted earlier: "The Inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the World. . . . Setting aside their Humane Shape, they differ but little from Brutes." So the Aborigines appeared... | |
 | Riccardo Capoferro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 235 pages
...Inhabitants of this Country are thè miserablest People in thè World. The Hodmadods of Monomatopa, though a nasty People, yet for Wealth are Gentlemen...Houses and Skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of thè Earth, Ostrich Eggs, etc., as thè Hodmadods have: and setting aside their humane Shape, they... | |
 | Stuart Banner - History - 2007 - 408 pages
...theme. The tone was set by William Dampier, who washed up on the north coast of Australia in 1688. "The Inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the World," Dampier reported when he got back to England. "Setting aside their Humane Shape, they differ but little... | |
 | 1850 - 554 pages
...are * King, II. ISO. vOL. LXX. — NO. 146. 15 the miser-ablest people in the world. The Hodroadods 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, &c They have great bottle-noses,... | |
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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... 
