 ... beauty of the sex, who, in many respects, resembled the Moor rather than the negro. Unaware of a stranger's presence, they came forth as usual in a simple dress which covers their body from waist to knee, and leaves the rest of the figure entirely...  The African Repository - Page 3431854Full view - About this book
 | Theophilus Conneau - 1854 - 380 pages
...and leaves the rest of the figure entirely naked. Group after group gathered together on the brink of the brook in the slanting sunlight and lengthening...homeward singing, with their charged utensils poised 0n head or hand. Their slow, stately, swinging movement under the burden, was grace that might be envied... | |
 | Theodore Canot - Africa - 1854 - 510 pages
...and leaves the rest of the figure entirely naked. Group after group gathered together on the brink of the brook in the slanting sunlight and lengthening...others lifted the brimming vessels to their sisters' shoulders—while others strode homeward singing, with their charged utensils poised on head or hand.... | |
 | Theodore Canot - Africa - 1854 - 498 pages
...and leaves the rest of the figure entirely naked. Group after group gathered together on the brink of the brook in the slanting sunlight and lengthening...others lifted the brimming vessels to their sisters' shoulders—while others "strode homeward singing, with their charged utensils poised on head or hand.... | |
 | Brantz Mayer - Slave trade - 1854 - 502 pages
...and leaves the rest of the figure entirely naked. Group after group gathered together on the brink of the brook in the slanting sunlight and lengthening...their jars ; others lifted the brimming vessels to then- sisters' shoulders — while others strode homeward singing, with their charged utensils poised... | |
 | Theophilus Conneau - Slave trade - 1855 - 330 pages
...slanting sunlight and lengthening shadows of the plain. Some rested on their pitchers and water-vessels ; some chatted, or leaned on each other gracefully,...stooped to fill their jars ; others lifted the brimming vessel to their sisters' shoulders ; while others strode homewards singing, with their charged utensils... | |
 | W. O. Blake - Slave trade - 1857 - 934 pages
...and leaves the rest of the figure entirely naked. Group after group gathered together on the brink of the brook in the slanting sunlight and lengthening...hand. Their slow, stately, swinging movement under the burdei was grace that might be envied on a Spanish like foreheads that characterize the Soosoos and... | |
 | Theodore Canot, Brantz Mayer - Slave-trade - 1928 - 430 pages
...entirely naked. Group after group gathered together on the brink of the brook in the slanting sunlight. Some rested on their pitchers and water vessels; some...a Spanish paseo. I do not think the forms of these Foulah girls — with their complexions of freshest bronze — are exceeded in symmetry by the women... | |
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