A general collection of ... voyages and travels, digested by J. Pinkerton, Volum 16John Pinkerton 1814 |
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Side 490 - ... as well women as men, in which condition they are obliged to continue, if the master of the ship is not so charitable (which he commonly is) as to bestow something on them to cover their nakedness.
Side 52 - As to the former of these intentions, the fine shavings of the horns taken internally were supposed to cure convulsions and spasms in children. With respect to the latter, it was generally believed that goblets made of these horns in a turner's lathe would discover a poisonous draught that was put into them, by making the liquor ferment till it ran quite out of the goblet. Such horns as were taken from a rhinoceros calf were said to be the best, and the most to be depended upon." " The horn of the...
Side 489 - When these Slaves come to Fida, they are put in Prison all together, and when we treat concerning buying them, they are all brought out together in a large Plain; where, by our Chirurgeons, whose Province it is, they are thoroughly examined, even to the smallest Member, and that naked too both Men and Women, without the least Distinction or Modesty. Those which are approved as good are set on one side; and the lame or faulty are set by as Invalides, which are here called Mackrom.
Side 619 - This sight pleased me so well, that I w°ould have it repeated : and to try their strength, I made a full-grown negro mount the smallest, and two others the largest. This burden did not seem to me at all disproportioned to their strength.
Side 6 - Have, remains tawny, but approaches to a white complexion ; but the children of the third generation, mixed with Europeans, become quite white, and are often remarkably beautiful.
Side 334 - Imbando sits with his water, and gives every one a cup of water by one measure ; and they are commanded to walk in a certain place till they make water, and then they are free. But he that cannot urine presently...
Side 459 - The country of Saboe produces the greateft quantities of this fruit, and next to that the country of Ante ; of which we may. fay (confidering it as a part of the Coaft), that it wants nothing neceflary to human life. It is told me as truth, that before the Portuguefe came to this coaft, the Negroes fubfifted themfelves with thefe two fruits, and a few roots of trees ; they being then utterly ignorant of Milhio, which was brought thither by that nation. I am more ftrongly induced to believe this,...
Side 433 - alter strangely ; their ears grow long and stiff like those of foxes, to which colour they also incline, so that in three or four years, they degenerate into very ugly creatures ; and in three or four broods their barking turns into a howl.
Side 273 - An old traveller recites how at the appearance of every new moon the Congo negroes " fall on their knees, or else cry out, standing and clapping their hands, ' So may I renew my life as thou art renewed.
Side 3 - The male flaves wear their own hair, upon which they fet a great value, wrapped up in a twifted handkerchief like a turban, and the females wreath up their hair and fix it on their heads with a large pin. Trowfers conftitute the other part of their drefs ; and, as a token of their fervile condition, they always go barefoot, and without a hat. Previous to the company's fitting down to meals, either dinner or fupper, a female flave brings a wafh-hand bafon and towel, to wafh their hands, which is alfo...