 | R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 508 pages
...differs very widely from those who live in the colonv. In his disposition he is lively and chearful ; in his person active. His talents are far above mediocrity...generally to their hovels by day, for fear of being surprized and taken by the farmers, they sometimes dance on moon-light nights from the setting to the... | |
 | Sir William Lawrence - Anatomy, Comparative - 1819 - 646 pages
...Bosjesman, though in every respect a Hottentot? yet in his turn of mind differs very widely from those that live in the colony. In his disposition he is lively...averse to idleness, they are seldom without employment •fT> They are very fond of dancing, exhibit great industry and acuteness in their contrivances for... | |
 | Sir William Lawrence - Anthropology - 1822 - 544 pages
...widely from those that live in the colony. In his disposition he is lively and cheerful ; and, in liiť person active. His talents are far above mediocrity; and, averse to idleness, they are seldom without employment."t They are very fond of dancing, exhibit great industry and acuteness in their contrivances... | |
 | Sir William Lawrence - Anatomy, Comparative - 1828 - 526 pages
...very widely from those that live in the colony. In his disposition he is lively and cheerful; and, in his person active. His talents are far above mediocrity...; and, averse to idleness, they are seldom without employment."t They arc very fond of dancing, exhibit great industry and acuteness in their contrivances... | |
 | Natural history - 1831 - 420 pages
...live in the colony. In his disposition he is lively and cheerful ; and in his person active. Their talents are far above mediocrity ; and, averse to idleness, they are seldom without employment. They are very fond of dancing, exhibit great industry and acuteness in their contrivances for catching... | |
 | Sir William Lawrence - Anatomy, Comparative - 1848 - 502 pages
...Bosjesman, though in every respect a Hottentot, yet in his turn of mind differs very widely from those that live in the colony. In his disposition he is lively...to idleness, they are seldom without employment." f They are very fond of dancing, exhibit great industry and acuteness in their contrivances for catching... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - African Americans - 1848 - 668 pages
...patience. They are by no means deficient in talent." * " In his disposition," says Barrow, " the Bushman is lively and cheerful; in his person, active. His...averse to idleness, they are seldom without employment. They are very fond of dancing, exhibit great industry and acuteness in their contrivances for catching... | |
 | Linda Brodkey - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 335 pages
..."Scratches on the Face of the Country; or, What Mr. Barrow Saw in the Land of the Bushmen" (1985): Confined generally to their hovels by day, for fear...nights from the setting to the rising of the sun. . . . His cheerfulness is the more extraordinary, as the morsel he produces to support existence is... | |
 | Susan L. Roberson - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 338 pages
...from a fairly lengthy portrait describing the Bushmen: In his disposition he is lively and chearful; in his person active. His talents are far above mediocrity;...farmers, they sometimes dance on moonlight nights from setting to the rising of the sun. . . . The small circular trodden places around their huts indicated... | |
 | Tim Fulford - Europe - 2002 - 334 pages
...their moral character. The Bosjesmans, though in every respect a Hottentot, yet in his turn of 180 mind differs very widely from those who live in the...averse to idleness, they are seldom without employment. Conlined generally to their hovels by day, for fear of being surprised and taken by the farmers, they... | |
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Though naturally fearful, they will run into the face of danger if led on by their superiors. They suffer pain with patience. They are by no means deficient in talent *." ** The Bosjesman, though in every respect a Hottentot? yet in his turn of mind differs... 