 | Henry Reynolds - History - 1996 - 244 pages
...century later. W. DAMPIER, A NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD, THE ARGONAUT PRESS, LONDON, 1927, PP. 312-13. The Inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the World. . . [They] have no Houses, and skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of the Earth . . . and setting... | |
 | Charles Manning Hope Clark, Manning Clark - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 286 pages
...them, they were astonished by three things: 1 . Their material misery, as noted by William Dampier: The Hodmadods of Monomatapa, though a nasty people,...Skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry and Fruits of the Earth . . . etc., as the Hodmadods have; and setting aside their humane shape, they differ but little from... | |
 | George Seddon - Architecture - 1998 - 300 pages
...31 not the least. Dampier did not think much of them, and said so in an oft-quoted, dismissive text: 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... | |
 | Glyndwr Williams - History - 1997 - 324 pages
...New Voyage was to live long in the European memory. Naked, black, without covering or habitations, The Inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the World . . . setting aside their Humane Shape, they differ but httle from Brutes. They are tall, strait-bodied,... | |
 | Frank Spencer - Physical anthropology - 1997 - 652 pages
...thought to be inextricably linked. For example, William Dampier (1652-1715) noted of Australia that "the inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the world. . . . [S]etting aside their human shape, they differ but little from Brutes" (1697:263). The few histories... | |
 | Roslynn Doris Haynes - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 406 pages
...William Dampier in 1697: 'The Inhabitants of this country are the miserablest People in the World . . . who have no Houses and skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry and Fruits of the Earth. . . . They differ but litde from Brutes.'42 Moreover, the rise of evangelicalism and European missionary... | |
 | Donald F. Lach, Edwin J. Van Kley - Business & Economics - 1998 - 588 pages
...the earlier Dutch accounts. They are, he concludes, The miserablest People in the World . . . They have no Houses, and skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of the Earth . . . And setting aside their Humane shape, they differ little from Brutes. They are tall, strait-bodied,... | |
 | Roslynn Doris Haynes - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 406 pages
...early colonists reverted to attitudes resembling the abhorrence expressed by William Dampier in 1697: 'The Inhabitants of this country are the miserablest People in the World ... who have no Houses and skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry and Fruits of the Earth. . . . They differ... | |
 | Tim Fridtjof Flannery - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 404 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.n And, setting aside their human shape, they differ but little from brutes.... | |
 | Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Smith, Nicholas Thomas - History - 2000 - 390 pages
...are 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, 8cc. as the Hodmadods have: And setting aside their Humane Shape, they differ but little from Brutes.... | |
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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... 
