Curiosities of Savage Life, Band 2S.O. Beeton, 1864 |
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Abomey Abyssinia Africa appeared arms arrived arrows bamboo blood boat body Bouda Bruce calabash called canoe Captain carried Cazembe ceremony chief cloth club colour commenced cowries custom Dahomey dance Dayaks dead death deck dressed Egbo enemy father feast feet fetish fight Figian Finow fire friends Gézo Griquas guns hair hand head human hyænas Illanuns Indian island Jaga Jolly Bachelor killed king King of Dahomey king's live Manabozho Mandan mats medicine mouth natives night occasion once ornamented palm wine party person piece present priest rain rain maker round sacred Samoan savage seated shoulders sick side sitting skin skulls slaves soon spear spirit squaw stick Sukia supposed tabu tapu throw tohunga took traveller tree tribe village warriors weapon whilst woman women wood wound yards young
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Seite 213 - of Joshua, of the day when that man of God stood in the sight of Israel, and said : ' Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies.'
Seite 205 - this is, one cannot help seeing in it the wreck of that sublime description in the book of Joshua, of the day when that man of God stood in the sight of Israel, and said : ' Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies.'
Seite 203 - had become men and women! A strange account of man's origin. But how affectingly it reminds one of his end: ' They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Seite 361 - when mourning the death of Abner: ' So do God to me and more also, if I taste bread or aught else till the sun be down.' The fifth day was a day of purification. They bathed the face and hands with
Seite 71 - are put upon his fingers; the man is equally satisfied at the time, but occasionally finds it out and complains the next day. Once while I watched a Damara floundering hopelessly in a calculation on one side of me, I observed Dinah my spaniel equally
Seite 361 - under the same roof. The family have their meals outside, or in another house Those who attended the deceased were formerly most careful not to handle food, and for days were fed by others as if they were helpless infants. Baldness and the loss of teeth were supposed to be the punishment inflicted by the household,
Seite 346 - dried up, and the whole body appeared as if covered with a kind of parchment. It was then clothed, and fixed in a sitting posture ; a small altar was erected before it, and offerings of fruit, food, and flowers daily presented by the relatives or the priest appointed to attend the body. In this state it was
Seite 159 - Barolongs, and Bakotus, that you acquaint all your tribes of the proceedings of this day ; let none be ignorant. I say again, ye warriors, prepare for the battle; let your shields be strong, your quivers full of arrows, and your battle-axes as sharp as hunger. Be silent, ye kidney-eaters (addressing the old men
Seite 303 - What,' he exclaimed with astonishment, ' what are these words about; the dead, the dead arise ?' 'Yes,' was my reply, 'all the dead shall arise.' 'Will my father arise?' 'Yes,' I answered, 'your father will arise.' 'Will all the slain in battle arise?' 'Yes.' 'And will all that have been killed and devoured by lions, tigers, hyaenas, and
Seite 160 - weeps at the shedding of blood ; for his sake I spare your life. He has travelled from a far country to see me, and he has made my heart white; but he tells me that to take away life is an awful thing, and never can be undone again.