| David Livingstone - 1857 - 762 páginas
...generally becomes quite fat, and is esteemed a very dainty morsel by the natives, while the poor slave of a husband gets so lean that, on the sudden lowering...dies. I never had an opportunity of ascertaining the actual length of the confinement, but on passing the same tree at Kolobeng about eight days afterwards,... | |
| Congregational union of England and Wales - 1858 - 776 páginas
...generally becomes quite fat, and is esteemed a very dainty morsel by the natives, while the poor slave of a husband gets so lean that, on the sudden lowering...dies. I never had an opportunity of ascertaining the actual length of the confinement ; but, on passing the same tree at Kolobeng about eight days afterwards,... | |
| David Livingstone - 1858 - 782 páginas
...of rain, he is benumbed, falls down, and dies. I never had an opportunity of ascertaining the actual length of the confinement, but on passing the same...the short time that had elapsed, the disconsolate husband-had secured another wife. We did not disturb her, and my duties prevented me from returning... | |
| John George Wood - 1865 - 708 páginas
...generally becomes fat, and is esteemed a very dainty morsel by the natives, while the poor slave of a husband gets so lean that, on the sudden lowering of the temperature, which sometimes happens alter a fall of rain, he is benumbed, falls down, and dies. I never had an opportunity of ascertaining... | |
| John George Wood - 1866 - 732 páginas
...generally becomes fat, and is esteemed a very dainty morsel by the natives, while the poor slave of a husband gets so lean that, on the sudden lowering...passing the same tree at Kolobeng about eight days afterwards, the hole was plastered up again, as if in the short time that had elapsed the disconsolate... | |
| John George Wood - 1866 - 694 páginas
...generally becomes fat, and is esteemed a very dainty morsel by the natives, while the poor slave of a husband gets so lean that, on the sudden lowering...passing the same tree at Kolobeng about eight days afterwards, the hole was plastered up again, as if in the short time that had elapsed the disconsolate... | |
| David Livingstone - 1868 - 810 páginas
...generally becomes quite fat, and is esteemed a very dainty morsel by the natives, while the poor slave of a husband gets so lean that, on the sudden lowering...dies. I never had an opportunity of ascertaining the actual length of the confinement, but on passing the same tree at Kolobeng about eight days afterward... | |
| John Timbs - 1869 - 374 páginas
...becomes quite fat, and is esteemed a very dainty morsel by the natives ; while the poor slave of a husband gets so lean that, on the sudden lowering...fall of rain, he is benumbed, falls down, and dies. Dr. Livingstone, on passing the same tree at Kolenbeng about eight days afterwards, found the hole... | |
| Zoological Society of London - 1869 - 840 páginas
...generally becomes quite fat, and is esteemed a very dainty morsel by the natives, while the poor slave of a husband gets so lean that on the sudden lowering of...fall of rain, he is benumbed, falls down, and dies." It will be seen by this statement that the male dies from exhaustion, doubtless produced by the constant... | |
| Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 776 páginas
...esteemed a very dainty morsel by the natives, while the poor slave of a husband gets so lean and weak, that on the sudden lowering of the temperature, which...fall of rain, he is benumbed, falls down, and dies. All pensile birds are remarkable for the eccentricity of shape and design which marks their nests ;... | |
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