 | John Cooke - 1831 - 332 sider
...Bandeleer, lined with tin, each containing a cartridge. Few had great coats; the generality having blankets, (with a hole in the middle for the head to pass through,) hanging loose about their person. Their artillery was good, from attention having been given to it... | |
 | 1834 - 576 sider
...shirt, a sort of jacket, with small tight breeches, and a poncho, which is a piece of cloth simply with a hole in the middle for the head to pass through, falling before and behind down to the knees, and open at the sides like a cassock. The colour of their... | |
 | Favell Lee Mortimer - 1856 - 376 sider
...silver spurs, and silver stirrups, and silver pommel ! The men walking in the streets wear a " Serape," which is put on more easily than any other dress,...streets, wrapped in a woollen garment, her black hair plaited with a red ribbon, and her baby, as dark as mahogany, fastened to her back. The Indians are... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 582 sider
...breeches, and a poncho, which is xmiversally worn throughout South America. The poncho is a piece of cloth with a hole in the middle for the head to pass through, falling before and behind down to the knees, and open at the sides like a cassock. The colour of their... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 598 sider
...breeches, and a poncho, which is universally worn throughout Soutli America. The poncho is a piece of cloth with a hole in the middle for the head to pass through, falling before and behind down to the knees, and open at the sides like a cassock. The colour of their... | |
 | Malcolm MacColl - 1870 - 124 sider
...character of the scenery. Over this costume, when it rains, the Tyrolese hunter wears a loose covering with a hole in the middle for the head to pass through, somewhat like the Moorish burnous. Sometimes it is nothing more than a blanket; but if the wearer happens... | |
 | Malcolm MacColl - 1871 - 142 sider
...character of the scenery. Over this costume, when it rains, the Tyrolese hunter wears a loose covering with a hole in the middle for the head to pass through, somewhat like the Moorish burnous. Sometimes it is nothing more than a blanket ; but if the wearer... | |
 | George Pegler - 1875 - 548 sider
...accompanied by a civilian in Spanish garb. In that day the usual outer dress of a poor Spaniard was -a blanket with a hole in the middle for the head to protrude, one half hanging behind and the other in front, and bound around the body by a leather thong.... | |
 | 1894 - 592 sider
...We might give a general notion of what it was by taking a blanket with the corners rounded off, and with a hole in the middle for the head to pass through. A generation ago, a wrap very like it was worn in England under the name of ponelio. This was the general... | |
 | Francis Loraine Petre - 1910 - 516 sider
...the fatal scissors had shorn him of his long thick hair ; an immense square blanket of coarse wool, with a hole in the middle for the head to pass through, hung from the shoulders to the knees, giving the impression of an armless man. However easy it was... | |
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The poncho is a piece of cloth with a hole in the middle for the head to pass through, falling before and behind down to the knees, and open at the sides like a cassock. The colour of their dress is generally blue, which is their favourite colour. On... 
