 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 852 pagine
...fishing. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale discovered, it is a feast, and such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless...consequence, cannibalism, accompanied by parricide." Whilst beholding these savages, we naturally ask, whence have they come? What could have tempted, or... | |
 | Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1848 - 190 pagine
...fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale discovered, it is a feast ; and such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi. A small party of these men one morning set out, and the other Indians said that they were going four... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1850 - 928 pagine
...carcass of a putrid whale discovered, it is a feast, and such miserable food is assisted by a few tast*]^ berries and fungi. Nor are they exempt from famine,...consequence, cannibalism, accompanied by parricide." Whilst beholding these savages, we naturally ask, whence have they come? What could have tempted, or... | |
 | Stephen Henry Ward - 1853 - 432 pagine
...fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale discovered, it is a feast; and such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi. They often suffer from famine, — and I heard Mr. Low, a sealing master, intimately acquainted with... | |
 | 1861 - 396 pagine
...fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale is discovered, they are feasts. Such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi." After drawing this faithful picture of the condition of the Fuegians, Mr. Darwin makes the following... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 328 pagine
...fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale is discovered, they are feasts. Such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi." Mr. Snow, who brings us our latest reports from the Fuegans, visited them in 1855. At present, however,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 338 pagine
...fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale is discovered, they are feasts. Such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi." Mr. Snow, who brings us our latest reports from the Fuegans, visited them in 185.15. ^ present, however,... | |
 | 1865 - 592 pagine
...baited hair line, jerk out small fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale discovered, it is a feast ; such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi." (Darwin's Journal, p. 234, quoted by Lubbock, p. 189.) The tumuli and the peat mosses have also been... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1884 - 526 pagine
...baited hair line jerk out small fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a dead whale discovered, it is a feast. Such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi. Nor arc they exempt from famine, and, as a consequence, cannibalism, accompanied by parricide." The old... | |
 | Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey, Alfred Maskell - 1878 - 184 pagine
...fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcase of a putrid whale discovered, it is a feast, and such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi. They often suffer from famine." Many objects from these wild and rarely visited regions, including... | |
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... and the women either dive to collect sea-eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair-line without any hook, jerk out little fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale discovered, it is a feast; and such... 
