Travels from the Cape of Good-Hope: Into the Interior Parts of Africa, Including Many Interesting Anecdotes, Հատոր 2

François Le Vaillant

William Lane, 1790 - 464 էջ

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Էջ 346 - have a larger portion of land to cultivate, ' and a greater number of cattle to tend and ' feed ; thefe being his only refources for * the maintenance of his numerous family, ' he is frequently in danger of being ruined. ' His cabin is neither higher nor better * decorated than the reft ; his whole family ' and feraglio live round him, compofing a ' group of a dozen or fifteen huts ; the ad' joining land is generally of his own culti‎

Էջ 334 - I had feen, they are taller than the Hottentots of the colonies, or even than the Gonaquais, though they greatly refemble the latter, but are more robuft and...‎

Էջ 335 - ... people project in the uncouth manner of the Hottentots ^ neither have they large flat faces and thick lips, like their neighbours the negroes of Mofambique, but a...‎

Էջ 67 - A recent investigator states regarding two Bushman tribes that " there are no class distinctions among the Naron and Anen, nor, excepting the medicine-men, are there any trades".1* Again respecting the Hottentots, it is stated that " in a country where there is no difference in birth or rank, every inhabitant is necessarily on an equality...‎

Էջ 258 - One shewed me a piece of silver coin which 'he wore at his neck, and another a small 'key. They likewise described, as well as 'they could, a curiosity which had been ' divided among them. By their account I 'judged this must have been a watch, whose ' wheels they had separated, and formed into ‎

Էջ 321 - ... swam over, and must advance a great 'way towards the north to find it fordable. 'They added, that they had seen several 'white men among the Tambouches, some 'time ago, when they exchanged some mer'chandize with that people for nails taken ' from the wreck ; but being now at war with 'them, they could procure no more.‎

Էջ 321 - I enquired about the ship' wrecked vessel, but learned little more than ' I was before acquainted with : That it had 'been cast away on the coast of Caffraria. 'I judged this melancholy event had hap'pened beyond the country of the Tambou'ches, as high as Madagascar, towards the 'channel of Mosambique. These people 'assured me, that, besides the difficulties I 'should have to encounter, after having 'passed their limits...‎

Էջ 147 - What was my aftoment, after having obferved that each kept his liquor in his glafs, to fee them approach their comrades who had not received any, and diftribute it from mouth to mouth ! I muft confefs I was inchanted by this unexpected and affecting ftroke of native generofity.‎

Էջ 345 - The caffrees are governed by a chief or ' king, whose power is very limited, receiving 'no tax, having no troops at his command, ' but being the father of a free people ; neither 'attended nor feared, but respected and be' loved, and frequently poorer than many of 'his subjects.‎

Էջ 339 - ... hair; but it is only in the cold or rainy feafon that either fex wear it. Thefe fkins are as foft and pliant as the fineft ftuffs : the Caffrees prepare them nearly in the fame manner as ^.Hottentots.‎

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• Վերնագիր: Travels from the Cape of Good-Hope: Into the Interior Parts of Africa, Including Many Interesting Anecdotes, Հատոր 2; Հատոր 2 of Travels from the Cape of Good-Hope, Into the Interior Parts of Africa: Including Many Interesting Anecdotes ; with Elegant Plates, Descriptive of the Country and Inhabitants, François Le Vaillant; Travels from the Cape of Good-Hope: Into the Interior Parts of Africa, Including Many Interesting Anecdotes, Elizabeth Helme
• Հեղինակ: François Le Vaillant
• Թարգմանիչ.: Elizabeth Helme
• Հրատարակիչ: William Lane, 1790
• Original from: Նյու Յորքի Հանրային գրադարան
• Digitized: 30 Հոկտեմբեր 2007
• Length: 464 էջ