 ... my countrymen. They were frightened, — they fled away, all of them ; after a while they returned, they hastened and made a fire, — a fire with wood ; no more was fire lost in our land. The two blackfellows are in the clouds ; in the clear night...  Man, Past and Present - Página 157por Augustus Henry Keane - 1899 - 584 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - 1870 - 408 páginas
...away, all of them ; after a while they returned, they hastened and made a fire, — a fire with wood ; no more was fire lost in our land. The two black-fellows...the clouds ; in the clear night you see them like two stars.1 These are they who brought fire to my fathers. The two blackmen stayed awhile in the land... | |
 | James Bonwick - 1870 - 364 páginas
...away, all of them ; after a while they returned ; they hastened and made a fire— a fire with wood ; no more was fire lost in our land. The two Blackfellows...the clouds ; in the clear night you see them like two stars (Castor and Pollux). These are they who brought fire to my fathers. " The two Blackmen stayed... | |
 | Edward Burnett Tylor - 1870 - 438 páginas
...away, all of them ; after a while they returned, they hastened and made a fire, — a fire with wood ; no more was fire lost in our land. The two black-fellows...the clouds ; in the clear night you see them like two stars.1 These are they who brought fire to my fathers. The two blackmen stayed awhile in the land... | |
 | Robert Brough Smyth - 1878 - 572 páginas
...away, all of them ; after a while they returned ; they hastened and made a fire — a fire with wood ; no more was fire lost in our land. The two blackfellows are in the clouds ; in the clear nights you see them like two stars.* These are they who brought fire to my fathers. The two black men... | |
 | 1878 - 572 páginas
...away, all of them ; after a while they returned ; they hastened and made a fire — a fire with wood ; no more was fire lost in our land. The two blackfellows are in the clouds ; in the clear nights you see them like two stars.* These are they who brought fire to my fathers. The two black men... | |
 | Augustus Henry Keane - 1908 - 460 páginas
...about like stars. At first the people were frightened and ran away, but came back in time and made a fire of wood, after which " no more was fire lost...stars. These are they who brought fire to our fathers " (Tasmanian Folklore). There were no boomerangs, or throwingsticks, or shields, nothing but two primitive... | |
 | 632 páginas
...came back and made 1 Lumholtz, op. cit. p. 29i. 2 Ethnology, p. 294. a fire of wood, after which 'i no more was fire lost in our land. The two blackfellows...been introduced from the mainland. But before that implements time they possessed neither the boomerang nor the throwing-stick, nor the shield of the... | |
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