 Ill-modelled trunks and disproportioncd limbs are, in fact, as rare among them as they are common among some lightercomplexioned races. Their colour is, in general, very dark, and gives no token of the gradual tendency to assume a fairer tint, that may...  Dutch Guiana - Page 164by William Gifford Palgrave - 1876 - 264 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford Palgrave - Black people - 1876 - 312 pages
...physical respect are, to say the least, worthy of their mates. Ill-modelled trunks and disproportioncd limbs are, in fact, as rare among them as they are...heard it asserted more often than once, that, by long domicilemeut in the South American continent, the negro type has a tendency to mould itself into one... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 966 pages
...men are often six feet and more in height, with well-developed limbs and pleasing open countenances; and the women in every physical respect are, to say...latitudes ; their hair, too, is as c'urly as that of any Niaraniam or Darfooree chief, or native of Senegal. I have heard it asserted more often than once,... | |
 | Elisée Reclus - Geography - 1876 - 676 pages
...countenance ; and the women in every physical respect are, to say the least, worthy of their males. Ill-modelled trunks and disproportioned limbs are,...that may be observed among the descendants of negroes residing in more northerly latitudes. Their hair, too, is as curly as that of any Niam-Niam or Darfooree... | |
 | 1876 - 944 pages
...might, by a cynical mind, be rather reckoned among the counter-balancing advantages of forest existence. common among some lighter-complexioned races. Their...to assume a fairer tint that may be observed among tke descendants of negroes resident in more northerly latitudes ; their hair, too, is as curly as that... | |
 | Elisée Reclus - Geography - 1895 - 620 pages
...countenance ; and the women in every physical respect are, to say the least, worthy of their males. Ill-modelled trunks and disproportioned limbs are,...that may be observed among the descendants of negroes residing in more northerly latitudes. Their hair, too, is as curly as that of any Niam-Niam or Darfooree... | |
 | Augustus Henry Keane - Central America - 1901 - 548 pages
...and the women in every physical respect are, to say the least, worthy of their mates. Ill -modelled trunks and disproportioned limbs are, in fact, as...hair, too, is as curly as that of any Niam-niam, or Darfuri chief, or native of Senegal" (Palgrave, p. 169). Unlike Demerara, the Dutch colony depends... | |
 | Harry Johnston - African Americans - 1910 - 598 pages
...are in fact as rare among them as they are common among some lighter-complexioned races. Their skin colour is in general very dark, and gives no token...the gradual tendency to assume a fairer tint that 1 Dutch Guiana, London, 1876. of negroes residing in more northern t of any Nyam-nyam or Darfuri chief,... | |
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