 | 1890 - 932 pagine
...pound-weight has cost the life of a man, woman, or child ; for every five pounds a hut has been liumed ; for every two tusks a whole village has been destroyed...obtained at the price of a district, with all its people, Tillages, and plantations." Here there is, we fear, no exaggeration ; and if there is, yet how ghastly... | |
 | United States National Museum - 1891 - 1232 pagine
...paid for ivory, of which every pound weight has cost the life of a "man, woman or child," while i4 every twenty tusks have been obtained at the price of a district, with all its peoples, villages and plantations." The extermination of the buffalo over large areas of country was... | |
 | 1891 - 580 pagine
...lawfully. Every tusk, piece and scrap, in the possession of an Arab trader has been steeped and dyed in blood ! Every pound weight has cost the life of a...incredible that because ivory is required for ornaments or billiardgames, the rich heart of Africa, should be laid waste at this late year of the nineteenth century,... | |
 | Edmund Shorthouse - 1891 - 590 pagine
...life of a man, woman, or child ; for every five pounds a hut has been burned ; for every two Risks a whole village has been destroyed ; every twenty...incredible that because ivory is required for ornaments or billiardgames, the rich heart of Africa, should be laid waste at this late year of the nineteenth century,... | |
 | 1894 - 308 pagine
...have passed out of existence within another half century. If Mr. Stanley's account can be trusted, "every twenty tusks have been obtained at the price...district, with all its people, villages, and plantations," so barbarous and pitiless have been the methods of the Arabs. The lion, the camelopard, and the zebra,... | |
 | 1900 - 654 pagine
...the life of a man, woman or child. For every five pounds a hut has been burned. For every two tusks a village has been destroyed. Every twenty tusks have...price of a district, with all its people, villages and population." Will we ever wish to touch ivory again ? Guiness wrote, years ago, " The amount of human... | |
 | Edmund Shorthouse - 1908 - 660 pagine
...lawfully. Every tusk, piece and scrap, in the possession of an Arab trader has been steeped and dyed in blood ! Every pound weight has cost the life of a...obtained at the price of a district, with all its people, village?, and plantations ! It is simply incredible that because ivory is required for ornaments or... | |
 | 1890 - 534 pagine
...dyed in blood. Every pound weight has cost the life of a man, woman, or child; for every five ponnds a hut has been burned; for every two tusks a whole...district, with all its people, villages, and plantations. Whom, after all, does this bloody seizure of ivory enrich ? Only a few dozens of half-castes, Arab... | |
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Every tusk, piece and scrap, in the possession of an Arab trader has been steeped and dyed in blood ! Every pound weight has cost the life of a man, woman, or child ; for every five pounds a hut has been burned ; for every two tusks a whole village has... 