 | abbé Raynal (Guillaume-Thomas-François) - America - 1776 - 594 pages
...than the fhirt, and m:ule in the fhape of a brewer's apron, a girdle made of leather, on which a very fhort fabre was hung and fome knives; a hat, without any rim, except a £ap before, in order to take hold of it ; and fliocs without ftockings. Their ambition was fati'fied,... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1802 - 514 pages
...trewsers, dirtier than the shirt ; a leather* girdle, from which hung a short sabre, and some Dutch kniws ; a hat without any rim, except a flap before, in order to enable them to pull it off were under the necessity of turning their industry to other objects. The... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1822 - 486 pages
...Irowsers, dirtier than the shirt ; s leathern girdle, from which ban* a short sabre, and some Duteh knives; a hat without any rim, except a flap before, in order lo enable them to pull it off; shoes made of raw hides, but no stockings. These barbf rous mrn, the... | |
 | William Russell - Europe - 1837 - 764 pages
...trowsers, dirtier than the shirt ; a leathern girdle, from which hung a loose sabre, and some Dutch knives ; a hat without any rim, except a flap before, in order to enable them to pull it off; shoes made of raw hides, but no stockings. These barbarous men, the outcasts... | |
 | John Davenport - 1839 - 520 pages
...trowsers, dirtier than the shirt ; a leathern girdle, from which hung a short sabre, and some Dutch knives ; a hat without any rim, except a flap before, in order to enable them to pull it off ; shoes made of raw hides, but no stockings. They at first subsisted chiefly... | |
 | Harold Palmer Davis - Haiti - 1928 - 430 pages
...shape of a brewer's apron ; a girdle made of leather, on which a very short sabre was hung, and some knives; a hat without any rim, except a flap before, in order to take hold of it; and shoes without stockings. Their ambition was satisfied if they could but provide themselves with a gun... | |
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The dress of these barbarians consisted of a shirt dipped in the blood of the animals they killed in hunting; a pair of drawers dirtier than the shirt and made in the shape of a brewer's apron ; a girdle made of leather, on which a very short sabre was... 