It's quite clear," said our guide, " that you've become a mere Kitat (Chinese), and think that a man must not set out upon a journey unless the earth is perfectly dry and the sky perfectly cloudless. I have no doubt you go out to lead your sheep with... The Land of Gold: Reality Versus Fiction - Page 221by Hinton Rowan Helper - 1855 - 300 pagesFull view - About this book
| Évariste Régis Huc - 1852 - 344 pages
...earth is perfectly dry and the sky perfectly cloudless. I have no doubt you go out to lead your sheep with an umbrella in one hand and a fan in the other." It was ultimately arranged that we should take our departure at daybreak next morning. Meantime we... | |
| 1853 - 688 pages
...earth is perfectly dry and the sky perfectly cloudless. I have no doubt you go out to lead your sheep with an umbrella in one hand and a fan in the other." It was ultimately arranged that we should take our departure at daybreak next morning. Meantime we... | |
| Evariste Régis Huc - Mongolia - 1885 - 136 pages
...whom the sturdy muleteer laughed for his alarms, adding, that he supposed he himself tended his flocks with an umbrella in one hand, and a fan in the other. The good old man, heedless of the mocker, saw them safely out of the town, and gave them parting dirctions... | |
| Evariste Régis Huc - Missionaries - 1927 - 260 pages
...earth is perfectly dry and the sky perfectly cloudless. I have no doubt you go out to lead your sheep with an umbrella in one hand and a fan in the other." It was ultimately arranged that we should take our departure at day-break next morning. Meantime we... | |
| George M. Fredrickson - History - 1988 - 324 pages
...undeveloped country, in stark distinction to the South of The Impending Crisis, "can never fulfill its destiny until it introduces negro slavery. Nothing...subdue its forests or cultivate its untimbered lands." The heat, he argues, prevents white men from doing the heavy labor that is required. The time may come... | |
| David Brown - History - 2006 - 334 pages
...and Louisiana."26 Helper further speculated that Nicaragua, a country visited on his return journey, "can never fulfil its destiny until it introduces...subdue its forests or cultivate its untimbered lands." These explicitly proslavery reflections regarded slave labor as essential in tropical climates. They... | |
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