 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, who have no houses and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs...  The North American Review - Page 164edited by - 1850Full view - About this book
 | History - 1919 - 236 pages
...inhabitants cannot trouble them much, having neither boats nor iron. The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods...wealth are gentlemen to these, who have no houses and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs etc. as the Hodmadods have; and... | |
 | James Sykes Battye - Western Australia - 1924 - 496 pages
...whom he must have observed with very great care, he writes : 2 ' The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods...wealth are gentlemen to these, who have no houses and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, &c., as the Hodmadods have ;... | |
 | Arthur Wilberforce Jose, Herbert James Carter, Thomas George Tucker - Australia - 1927 - 862 pages
...possible notes about the country and its inhabitants. His description of the aborigines is well known: 'the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods...nasty people, yet for wealth are gentlemen to these. ' On 12 March the Cygnet sailed from King Sound by Christmas Island and the Sumatran coast to the Nieobars.... | |
 | Stuart B. Schwartz - History - 1994 - 648 pages
...commentaries: "The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest People in the World. The Hodmadoda of Monomatapa, though a nasty People yet for Wealth are Gentlemen to these . . . setting aside their Humane Shape, they differ but little from Brutes." The rest of the passage... | |
 | 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,...Wealth are Gentlemen to these; who have no Houses and Skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry and Fruits of the Earth . . . etc., as the Hodmadods have; and setting... | |
 | George Seddon - Architecture - 1998 - 300 pages
...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 no Houses and skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of the Earth, Ostrich Eggs, &c. as the Hodmadods have: And... | |
 | Tim Fridtjof Flannery - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 404 pages
...inhabitants cannot trouble them much, having neither boats nor iron. The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world. The Hodmadods...wealth are gentlemen to these, who have no houses, and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, etc., as the Hodmadods have.n... | |
 | Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Smith, Nicholas Thomas - History - 2000 - 390 pages
...Inhabitants cannot trouble them much having neither Boats nor Iron. The Inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the World. The Hodmadods...Wealth are Gentlemen to these; who have no Houses, and skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of the Earth, Ostrich Eggs, 8cc. as the Hodmadods have: And... | |
 | John Elliot Wills - History - 2001 - 358 pages
...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 no houses, and skin garments, sheep, poultry, and fruits of the earth, ostrich eggs, etc, as the Hottentots have;... | |
 | George Seddon - Gardening - 2005 - 304 pages
...them unfavourably with the Hottentots of south-western Africa: The inhabitants of this Country are the miserablest People in the world. The Hodmadods...Wealth are Gentlemen to these; who have no Houses and skin Garments, Sheep, Poultry, and Fruits of the Earth, Ostrich Eggs, &c. as the Hodmadods have: And... | |
| |
