The Indian Tribes of Guiana: Their Condition and Habits, with Researches Into Their Past History, Superstitions, Legends, Antiquities, Languages, &cBell & Dalby, 1868 - 500 pages |
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aborigines Acawoios ancient animals appearance Arawâks Arecunas arrows attacked banks Bartica Berbice Bishop brought called canoe Caribs cassava cataracts Cayenne chapel chief Christian civilized coast colonists colony coloured Corentyn countrymen Cuyuni dance death Demerara distance district Dutch dwell Essequibo expedition feet female fish forest formed Guiana habits hammock head heard heathen Indian tribes Indians inhabitants interior islands jaguar Kanaima kind labour land language latter length M'Clintock Macusis MAHAICONI Maquarri Masaruni miles mission missionary Moruca mound mouth nation native negroes night Orealla Orinoco paddle paiwari party Pirara poison Pomeroon possession present race remained resemblance river rocks savage savannah Schomburgk seemed seen settlement settlers sickness soon sorcerers Spaniards spirits spot station stream Surinam swamp told took trees tributaries tumulus various voyage Waini Wakapoa Waramuri Waraus wild woios woman women words young
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Page 431 - Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
Page 372 - And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? "For the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Page 222 - In the morning sow thy seed, And in the evening withhold not thine hand : For thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either thia or that, Or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 7 - Our wandering fathers came. Their ancient homes, their friends in youth, Sent forth the heralds of thy truth, To keep them in thy Name. 2 Then, through our solitary coast, The desert features soon were lost; Thy temples there arose ; Our shores, as culture made them fair, Were hallow'd by thy rites, by prayer, And blossom'd as the rose.
Page 98 - Unlike our families, these all descend in the female line, and no individual of either sex is allowed to marry another of the same family name. Thus a woman of the Siwidi family bears the same name as her mother, but neither her father nor her husband can be of that family. Her children and the children of her daughters will also be called Siwidi, but both her sons and daughters are prohibited from an alliance with any individual bearing the same name; though they may marry into the family of their...
Page 259 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 101 - On the birth of a child, the ancient Indian etiquette requires the father to take to his hammock, where ho remains some days as if he were sick, and receives the congratulations and condolence of his friends. An instance of this custom came under my own observation, where the man, in robust health and excellent condition, without a single bodily 'ailment, was lying in his hammock in the most provoking manner, and carefully and respectfully attended by the women, while the mother of the new-born infant...
Page 365 - Should death, however, ensue, the blame is laid upon the evil spirit, whose power and malignity have prevailed over the counteracting charms. Some rival sorcerer will at times come in for a share of the blame, whom the sufferer has unhappily made his enemy, and who is supposed to have employed the yauhahu in destroying him. The sorcerers being supposed to have the power of causing, as well as of curing diseases, are much dreaded by the common people, who never wilfully offend them. So deeply rooted...
Page 361 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 85 - Father? without revelation from God himself, and promised to come every Saturday, and stay till Monday morning, that he might see his child, and himself receive instruction. I would willingly have kept the boy with me, but he said he was not prepared as yet to leave him, and seemed hurt at the distrust implied. He said his words were true, and I had, a day or two after, proof that they were so, by his bringing not only the boy, but his eldest daughter, a girl eight years of age, whom he placed with...