 | John Adams - 1822 - 144 páginas
...other discharges it. Soap is manufactured of wood-ashes and palmoil; sandals of bull and cow-hides; baskets of various forms are ingeniously wrought and...persons good-looking, muscular, and very black ; and their tattow, or national mark, consists of three knobs of skin raised horizontally from each temple.... | |
 | John Adams - 1823 - 306 páginas
...and parallel with the wall, at the north-west extremity of the town, is the road which leads to Hro, a country of great extent, and inhabited by a powerful...persons, goodlooking, muscular, and very black; and their tattoo, or national mark, consists of three knobs of skin raised horizontally from each temple.... | |
 | John Adams - 1823 - 290 páginas
...for domestic purposes, except during the rainy season. Wells have, therefore, been made in diiferent parts of the town, which is a very unusual thing in...persons, goodlooking, muscular, and very black; and their tattoo, or national mark, consists of three knobs of skin raised horizontally from each temple.... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1863 - 364 páginas
...countenances as amongst the seniors of Abeokuta. Their * <A singular custom prevails here (Ardrah), that of anointing, occasionally, the interior walls...smell, and fills up crevices which would otherwise tbe tenanted by noxious and troublesome insects.' — (Captain John Adams, p. 81.) calvaria depressed... | |
 | John Adams - 1966 - 302 páginas
...to the natives' account, lies about NNE. from Ardrah, at the distance of nine days' journey, or I80 miles, allowing a traveller to proceed at the rate...persons, goodlooking, muscular, and very black ; and their tattoo, or national mark, consists of three knobs of skin raised horizontally from each temple.... | |
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Wells have, therefore, been made in different parts of the town, which is a very unusual thing in this part of Africa. The natives of Ardrah are industrious, and have acquired some proficiency in the arts, particularly in manufacturing cotton and iron.... 