 | John Adams - Africa, West - 1823 - 292 pages
...family immeD diately compels the debtor to release their relation by discharging the debt. Brandying is a mode of high gambling, and which consists of...tribes; the former being substantially built, and not unfreqnentiy having apartments over those on the basement story, and the latter having a form which... | |
 | 1824 - 610 pages
...former occupying the sea-shore, and the country extending a few miles from it into the interior; arid the latter a great extent of territory north of it....being substantially built, and not unfrequently having appartments over those on the basement story, and the latter having a form which renders them less... | |
 | John Purdy - Aids to navigation - 1844 - 534 pages
...canoe-men, can endure much bodily fatigue, although they are apt to make excuses for abridging their labour. Their national mark is three small perpendicular incisions...superiority and skill over other African tribes. The women are well formed, and many are not wanting in personal beauty, as their features are small, their... | |
 | John Purdy - Africa - 1855 - 634 pages
...meu, can endure much bodily fatigue, although they are apt to make excuses for abridging their labour. Their national mark is three small perpendicular incisions...construction of their dwellings and canoes they exhibit inueh superiority' and skill over other African tribes. The women are well formed, and raanv are. not... | |
 | Alexander G. Findlay - Africa - 1867 - 738 pages
...men, can endure much bodily fatigue, although they are apt to make excuses for abridging their labour. Their national mark is three small perpendicular incisions...superiority and skill over other African tribes. The •women are well formed, and many are not wanting in personal beauty, as their features are email,... | |
 | Alexander George Findlay - Pilot guides - 1883 - 938 pages
...canoe-men, can endure much bodily fatigue, although they are apt to make excuses for abridging their labour. Their national mark is three small perpendicular incisions...the neck. In the construction of their dwellings and their canoes they exhibit much superiority over other African tribes. The women are well formed, and... | |
 | James George Frazer - Social Science - 2000 - 618 pages
...137. TRIBES OF THE GOLD COAST AND SLAVE COAST TATTOO HARKS. The national Fantec mark is "three imall perpendicular incisions on each temple, and on the nape of the neck." p. 6. The national tattoo of the Chambas b "three oblong lines drawn from the temple over each check... | |
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Fantees are black as jet, muscular, and well-formed, and those that are engaged in fishing, and employed as canoe-men, can endure much bodily fatigue, although they often make excuses to abridge their labour, however well they may be paid for it ; for... 