 ... stall, but subsisted on locusts, roots, and the chase. They adopted this mode of architecture to escape the lions which abounded in the country. During the day the families descended to the shade beneath to dress their daily food. When the inhabitants...  The Sportsman - Página 14Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1851
...beneath, to dress their daily food. When the inhabitants increased they supported the augmented weight on the branches by upright sticks ; but when lightened...the same tree. his sport changes daily, his path is beset with danger, and instead of being, as he had always hitherto been, the aggressor, he hns now... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1851 - 726 páginas
...beneath, to dress their daily food. When the inhabitants increased they supported the augmented weight on the branches by upright sticks ; but when lightened...that many families, both of birds and savages, dwell nt peace in the same tree. As Mr, Gordon. Gumming advances into the interior the character of his sport... | |
 | Robert Moffat - 1842 - 686 páginas
...beneath to dress their daily food. When the inhabitants increased, they supported the augmented weight on the branches by upright sticks ; but when lightened...their load, they removed these for fire-wood. The following sketch of the tree (a species of ficus,) taken on the spot, will serve to illustrate what... | |
 | 1842 - 590 páginas
...to dress their daily food. When the inhahitants increased , they supported the augmented weight on the branches, by upright sticks, but when lightened of their load, they removed these for fire-wood. * Our limits, will not allow us to particularize the feasting* and dancings which accompanied our author's... | |
 | S. Warrand - 1842 - 590 páginas
...lo dress their-daily food. When the inhabitants increased, they supported the augmented -weight on the branches, by upright sticks, but when lightened of their load, they removed these for fire-wood. .. Our limits, will not allow us to particularize the feastings and dancings which accompanied our... | |
 | 1842 - 736 páginas
...beneath to dress their daily food. When the inhabitants increased, they supported the augmented weight on the branches, by upright sticks, but when lightened...of their load, they removed these for fire-wood." — Mo/at, pp.519, 520. On arriving at Moselekatse's first cattle post, Mr. Moffat wished to return,... | |
 | Robert Moffat - 1843 - 446 páginas
...beneath to dress their daily food. When the inhabitants increased, they supported the augmented weight on the branches, by upright sticks, but when lightened of their load, they removed these for firewood. As a proof of the necessity of such an expedient as above described, I may add, that during the day,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 páginas
...to dress their daily food. Wlion the inhabitants increased, they supported the augmented weight on the branches, by upright sticks, but when lightened of their load they removed these for fire-wood. In the original work there is a wood engraving of the tree in which are perched those human nests.... | |
 | London missionary society - 1844 - 808 páginas
...to dress their daily food. When the inhabitants- increased, they supported the augmented weight on the branches by upright sticks; but when lightened...of their load, they removed these for firewood. The frontispiece, engraved from a sketch of the tree (a species of FicuiI taken on the spot, will serve... | |
 | Robert Moffat - 1846 - 312 páginas
...beneath to dress their daily food. When the inhabitants increased, they supported the augmented weight on the branches, by upright sticks, but when lightened of their load, they removed these for firewood." Mr. Moffat pursued his journey with these chiefs, until he came to their country, which gave evidence... | |
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