The Aborigines of TasmaniaK. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, 1890 - 224 páginas |
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aborigines of Tasmania Andamanese appeared Australians Backhouse bark Barnard Davis Bay to Pitwater Billardière boat body bones Brune Island Calder canoes Colonies and Slaves colour Cook Derwent River described Diemen's Land Ditto eleebana Eucalyptus resinifera Europeans expressed female fire fish Flinders Island flint girl give grass habit hair hand head humerus huts ibid Journ kangaroo skin La Billardière length LING ROTH Macquarie Harbour males Marion mena Milligan Mount Royal natives Negrito North-west and Western occasion ochre opossum Oyster Bay party Péron Puggana race Recherche Bay River round savages says seemed shells shore showed skeleton skulls South of Tasmania spear specimens stick stone Tasm Tasmanian aborigines Tasmanian language Tasmanians tree Tribes about Mount Tribes from Oyster Van Diemen's Land vocabulary waddy walked weapons West Western Tribes Widowson woman women wood words young
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Página lxviii - And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Página 178 - neither could they express abstract qualities, such as hard, soft, warm, cold, long, short, round, etc.; for 'hard' they would say ' like a stone ;' for 'tall' they would say 'long legs,' etc.; for ' round ' they said
Página lxix - And God said: Let us make man in our own image, after our own likeness...
Página 117 - I believe they have no settled place of habitation (as their houses seemed built only for a few days), but wander about in small parties from place to place in search of food, and are actuated by no other motive. We never found more than three or four huts in a place, capable of containing three or four persons each only...
Página 53 - Soon after we heard their voices like the cakling of geese, and twenty persons came out of the wood, twelve of whom went round to some rocks, where the boat could get nearer to the shore than we then were. Those who remained behind were women. We approached within twenty yards of them, but there was no possibility of landing, and I could only throw to the shore, tied up in paper, the presents which I intended for them. I showed the different articles as I tied them up, but they would not untie the...
Página 178 - Jemmy's father's wife," and so on. Such a practice must, it is clear, have contributed materially to reduce the number of their substantive appellations, and to create a necessity for new phonetic symbols to represent old ideas, which new vocables would, in all probability, differ on each occasion, and in every separate tribe ; the only chance of fusion of words between tribes arising out of the capture of females for wives from hostile and alien people — a custom generally prevalent, and doubtless...
Página 132 - During the whole of the first night after the death of one of their tribe they will sit round the body, using rapidly a low.
Página 176 - ... several tribes. The habit of gesticulation and the use of signs to eke out the meaning of monosyllabic •expressions, and to give force, precision, and character to vocal sounds, exerted a further modifying effect, producing, as it did, carelessness and laxity of articulation and in the application and pronunciation of words.
Página 21 - African, exhibit all the symmetry and peculiarly well-defined muscular development and well-knit articulations and roundness which characterize the negro ; hence, compared with the latter, he is swifter in his movements, and in his gait more graceful. His agility, adroitness, and flexibility when running, climbing, or stalking his prey, are more fully displayed ; and when beheld in the posture of striking, or throwing his spear, his attitude leaves nothing to be desired in point of manly grace.
Página 32 - Their surprise at so unexpected a rencounter was visible in their countenances; but their number inspiring them with courage, they approached at the invitation of the European, and bound round their heads a handkerchief and neckcloth which he offered them. They, however, appeared terrified at the sight of his hanger, which he showed them how to use; nor were their fears quieted till he made them a present of it. He endeavoured in vain to persuade...