These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with white paint, their skins filthy and greasy, their hair entangled, their voices discordant, and their gestures violent. Viewing such men, one can hardly make oneself believe... Quarterly Journal of Science: 1866 - Page 1631866Full view - About this book
| 1884 - 656 pages
...the inhabitants : — " These poor wretches were stunted in their growth ; their hideous faces were bedaubed with white paint, their skins filthy and...their voices discordant, and their gestures violent. Viewing such men, one can hardly make oneself believe that they are fellowcreatures and inhabitants... | |
| James J. Macintyre - Aristocracy - 1843 - 476 pages
...skin of her naked child. . . . These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous forms bedaubed with white paint, their skins filthy and...greasy, their hair entangled, their voices discordant, their gestures violent and without dignity. ... At night, five or six human beings, naked and scarcely... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - America - 1844 - 852 pages
...and thawed on her naked bosom and on the skin of her naked child. These poor creatures were stinted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with...greasy, their hair entangled, their voices discordant, their gestures violent and without dignity. Viewing such men, one can hardly believe they are fellow-creatures... | |
| Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 396 pages
...the sleet fell and thawed on her naked bosom, and on the skin of her naked baby ! These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces...their voices discordant, and their gestures violent. Viewing such men, one can hardly make one's self believe that they are fellow-creatures and inhabitants... | |
| Robert L. Wade - United States - 1846 - 448 pages
...sleet fell and thawed on her naked» bosom, and on the skin of her naked child. These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces...white paint, their skins filthy and greasy, their hair entanvoi,. iv. — NO. 2. 8 _led, their voices discordant, their gestures violent, and without dignity.... | |
| Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1848 - 190 pages
...the sleet fell and thawed on her naked bosom, and on the skin of her naked baby ! These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces...their voices discordant, and their gestures violent. Viewing such men, one can hardly make oneself believe that they are fellow-creatures, and inhabitants... | |
| 1852 - 784 pages
...bosom, nnd'on the? skin of her nakeil baby! These pbtji wretches were stunted in their growth," tlieir hideous faces bedaubed with white paint, their skins...their voices discordant, and their gestures violent. Viewing such men, one can hardly make oneself believe that they are fellow-cre itures nnd inhabitants... | |
| South American missionary society - 1851 - 438 pages
...point over-hanging the sea, partly concealed by an entangled forest, a strange and numerous group, stunted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed...skins filthy and greasy, their hair entangled, their clothing a mat of guanaco, their voices discordant. He fancies they can scarcely claim brotherhood... | |
| Ethnology - 1861 - 396 pages
...the sleet fell and thawed on her naked bosom and on the skin of her naked child. These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with white paint, their bodies filthy and greasy, their hair tangled, their voices discordant, their gestures violent without... | |
| Sir John Lubbock - Anthropology - 1865 - 560 pages
...heavily, and the fresh water, together with the spray, trickled down her body. . . . These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces...greasy, their hair entangled, their voices discordant, their gestures violent and without dignity. Viewing such men, one can hardly make oneself believe they... | |
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