| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 622 pages
...They attach great importance to certain forms of the body; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ...islands of the Oroonoko for collecting turtles' eggs.' — p. 465. The natives, it seems, have retained a belief that ' at the time of the great waters, when... | |
| 1819 - 596 pages
...They attach great importance to certain forms of the body; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ...islands of the Oroonoko for collecting turtles' eggs.' — p. 465. The natives, it seems, have retained a belief that ' at the time of the great waters, when... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 pages
...They attach great importance to certain forms of the body ; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ...the leg after the fashion of the country. As none of oiir Indians of Apure understood the Caribbee language, we could obtain no information from the Cacique... | |
| William Bingley - 1820 - 368 pages
...red. They attach great importance to certain forms of body ; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ...calf of the leg after the fashion of the country. On the 6th of April, continuing to ascend the Oronokoj first toward the south, and then toward the... | |
| Alexander Walker - 1822 - 844 pages
...They attach great importance to certain forms of the body ; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ...calf of the leg after the fashion of the country." SECTION IX. GOAHIROS. THE Goahiros are a nation situated between the jurisdiction of Maracaibo and... | |
| Alexander Walker - 1822 - 846 pages
...They attach great importance to certain forms of the body ; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ...calf of the leg after the fashion of the country." .SECTION IX. 6OAHIROS. THE Goahiros are a nation situated between the jurisdiction of Maracaibo and... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1825 - 602 pages
...They attach great importance to certain forms of the body; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ...islands of the Oroonoko for collecting turtles' eggs. the Rio Cabullare, which is formed by the Payara and the Atamaica, and is sometimes considered as one... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - 1840 - 294 pages
...importance to certain forms of the body ; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference to her children, if she did not employ artificial means...are made at this season in several islands of the Orinoco for collecting turtles' eggs." 146 TRADITIONS. Passing the night of the 5th on shore, our travellers... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1852 - 540 pages
...attach great importance to certain configurations of the body; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ...country. As none of our Indians of Apure understood the Caribhee language, we could obtain no information from the cacique of Panama respecting the encampments... | |
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