 | Mary Adelaide Nutting - 1907 - 706 páginas
...keeping with the Savages except the clothing, to which we must yet begin to reduce ourselves. Again : If you go to visit them in their cabins — and you...and smoke and on every side naked bodies. black and half-roasted, mingled pell-mell with the dogs, which are held as dear as the children of the house... | |
 | John Joseph Wynne - 1925 - 284 páginas
...examination of conscience, and then we retire to sleep.'"55 This is what a visit to the cabins meant: "If you go to visit them in their cabins, — and...children of the house, and share the beds, plates, and food of their masters. Everything is in a cloud of dust, and, if you go within, you will not reach... | |
 | Roger Magnuson - 1992 - 236 páginas
...offending the nostrils and causing the eyes to smart. In these cloudy surroundings, added Lalemant, were "naked bodies, black and half roasted, mingled pellmell with the dogs, which are held as dear as the children."36 Sometimes the visiting missionary was greeted with taunts and insults from the adults,... | |
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... with the dogs, which are held as dear as the children of the house, and share the beds, plates, and food of their masters. Everything is in a cloud of dust, and, if you go within, you will not reach the end of the cabin, before you are completely... 