The Wonders of Nature and Art: Or, A Concise Account of Whatever is Most Curious and Remarkable in the World; Whether Relating to Its Animal, Vegetable and Mineral Productions, Or to the Manufactures, Buildings and Inventions of Its Inhabitants, Compiled from Historical and Geographical Works of Established Celebrity, and Illustrated with the Discoveries of Modern Travellers, Volume 8J. Walker, 1804 - Civilization |
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Page 124 - Of this the following incident may serve as a confirmation. Mr. Vander Stel, governor of the Cape, took an infant Hottentot, whom he educated in the knowledge of Christianity, and according to the polished manners of Europeans ; allowing him little or no intercourse with his countrymen.
Page 203 - A matter of this nature could not but incite us to make the strictest observations concerning it; and accordingly we staid under the tree near three hours, and found we could not fathom its body in five times. We observed the soil where it grew to be very...
Page 27 - ... choked. This is a mark of grandeur. The greater the man would seem to be, the larger piece he takes in his mouth ; and the more noise he makes in chewing it, . the more polite he is thought to be. They have, indeed, a proverb that says, " Beggars and thieves only eat small pieces, or without making a noise.
Page 201 - A person lives on the spot near which this tree grows, who is appointed by the Council to take care of it and its water, and is allowed a house to live in, with a certain salary.
Page 172 - ... were innumerable mountains, or rather cliffs, which brought down their verdure and fertility quite to the beach ; fo that every fhade of green, the fweeteft of colours, was difplayed at one view by land and by water.
Page 38 - He kisses the threshold and side posts of the church-door, the steps before the altar, and then returns home : sometimes there is service in the church, sometimes there is not; but he takes no notice of the difference. He...
Page 133 - ... for a European to stay within hearing. The corpse is instantly wrapped up, neck and heels together, in the kross, so closely, that not the least part of it remains uncovered. About six hours after death, the funeral obsequies take place. When the corpse is ready to be brought out, all the men and women of the village, except such as are immediately engaged in the melancholy rites, assemble before the door of the hut; and squatting in two circles,, the men in one, and- the women in another, they...
Page 201 - ... no vent but by the gutter, gradually ascends it, and from thence advances slowly to the extremity of the valley, where it is...
Page 202 - On the morning of the fourth day, we came out on a large plain, where were great numbers of fine deer; and in the middle stood a tree of unusual size, spreading its branches ovei a vast compass of ground.
Page 222 - ... but all to no purpose ; and after the first fortnight, he was never observed to open his eyes.