 Bornu horsemen were killed, a great many more were brought in ; altogether they were said to have taken one thousand, and there were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men were...  Man, Past and Present - Página 67por Augustus Henry Keane - 1899 - 584 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1857 - 924 páginas
...parties, and among other enormities saw one hundred and seventy full grown men, who had been captured, " mercilessly slaughtered in cold blood, the greater...death, a leg having been severed from the body."1 Besides careful descriptions of natural scenery and of men and manners, the author enters deeply, and... | |
 | Heinrich Barth - 1857 - 730 páginas
...were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men were mercilessly slaughtered in cold...bleed to death, a leg having been severed from the body. Most of them were tall men, with not very pleasing features. Their forehead, instead of shelving... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 522 páginas
...were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men were mercilessly slaughtered in cold blood, the greater part of them being allowed to hleett to death, a leg having been severed from the body. Most of them were tall men, with not very... | |
 | Heinrich Barth - 1857 - 724 páginas
...were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men were mercilessly slaughtered in cold blood, the greater part of t hem being allowed to bleed to death, a leg having been severed from the body. Most of them were tall... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 páginas
...were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy fullgrown men were mercilessly slaughtered in cold...bleed to death, a leg having been severed from the body. Most of them were tall men, with not very pleasing features. Their foreheads, instead of shelving... | |
 | 1858 - 664 páginas
...be from 500 to 1000 captives. To the great horror of Barth and Overweg not less than 170 full grown men " were mercilessly slaughtered in cold blood,...bleed to death, a leg having been severed from the body." Three days after another village was attacked, and that which had " a few moments before been... | |
 | Robert Gordon Latham - 1859 - 524 páginas
...were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men were mercilessly slaughtered in cold...bleed to death, a leg having been severed from the body. Most of them were tall men, with not very pleasing features. Their forehead, instead of shelving... | |
 | 1860 - 402 páginas
...were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men were mercilessly slaughtered in cold...bleed to death, a leg having been severed from the body." On another occasion, he says : "The whole village, which, only a few moments before, had been... | |
 | Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, David Livingstone - 1872 - 478 páginas
...were certainly not less than five hundred. To our utmost horror, not less than one hundred and seventy full-grown men were mercilessly slaughtered in cold...bleed to death, a leg having been severed from the body." The number of "slaves" (that is, free persons captured) on this expedition was about 4,000,... | |
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