 | Richard Henry Major - Australia - 1859 - 356 pages
...extraordinarily shy, though the inhabitants cannot trouble them much, having neither boats nor iron. The -inhabitants of this country are the miserablest...sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, etc., as the Hodmadods have ; and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes.... | |
 | William Howitt - Australia - 1865 - 450 pages
...but feed upon a few fish, cockles, muscles, and periwinkles. They are without religion or government. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa, though a nasty people,...sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, &c., as the Hodmadods have, and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes.... | |
 | Samuel Bennett - Australia - 1865 - 710 pages
...extraordinary shy, though the inhabitants cannot trouble them much, having neither boats nor iron. " The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest...in the world. The Hodmadods of Monomatapa, though a nastv people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these ; who have no houses and skin-garments, sheep,... | |
 | John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1866 - 712 pages
...The llodmadods of Monomotapa, though a nasty Îteople, vet forwealth are gentlemen to these; who lave no houses and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich-eggs, »ic., as the Hodmadods have; and setting aside their human Ларе, they differ but... | |
 | David Laing Purves - Discoveries in geography - 1874 - 856 pages
...extraordinary shy, though the inhabitants cannot trouble them much, having neither boats nor arrows. The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods of llonomatapa,1 though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these, who have no 1 The Hottentots... | |
 | Charles Henry Eden - Australia - 1877 - 332 pages
...extraordinary shy ; though the inhabitants cannot trouble them much, having neither boats nor iron. " 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 (sic) * Dampier must have struck the coast... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1879 - 724 pages
...country," he says,* " are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods [Hottentots] of Monomalapa, though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen...sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, <tc., as the Hwimadods have. And setting aside their humane shape, they differ but little from brutes.... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1879 - 696 pages
...ITodmadods [Hottentots] of Honomatapa, though a nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to those ; who have no houses and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, Ac., us the Hodmadods have. And setting aside their humane shape, they differ 1mt httle from brutes.... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 428 pages
...exaggeration, as the miserablest people in the world ! " The Hodmadods of Monomatapa," he exclaims, " are gentlemen to these, who have no houses and skin...sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, &c., as the Hodmadods have. And setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes."... | |
 | Esquire Thomas Richards - New South Wales - 1883 - 814 pages
...extraordinary shy, though the inhabitants cannot trouble them much, having neither boats nor iron. The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest...garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostricheggs, &c., as the Hodmadods have ; and setting aside their human shape, they differ but little... | |
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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... 
