... are particularly fond of painting their faces with a variety of colours, so that it is no easy matter to discover their real complexion; however, we prevailed on one woman, by persuasion, and a trifling present, to wash her face and hands, and the... The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature - Página 182editado por - 1789Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1789 - 622 páginas
...about the middle fize, their limbs ftraight and well lhaped ; but, like the other inhabitants on this coaft, are particularly fond of painting their faces with a variety of colours, fo that it is no ealy matter to difcover their real complexion : bowevcr, we prevailed on one woman, by a trifling prefent,... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1797 - 810 páginas
...general are about the middle fize; their limbs ftraight and wejl fhaped ; but, like the other inhabitants on the coaft, are particularly fond of painting their...matter to difcover their real complexion ; however, one woman was prevailed on, by perfuafion and a trifling prefent, to wafh her face and har.ds, and... | |
| 1797 - 314 páginas
...general are about the middle fize; their limbs ftraight and well fhaped ; but, like the other inhabitants on the coaft, are particularly fond of painting their faces with a variety of colours; fp that it is no eafy matter to ditcover their real complexion : however, one woman was prevailed on,... | |
| James Haines McCulloh - 1829 - 558 páginas
...was at Port Mulgrave has given the most explicit statement of this fact. He observes, "the natives are particularly fond of painting their faces with a variety of colours, so that it is no easy matter to discover their real complexion; however, we prevailed on a woman, by... | |
| James Cowles Prichard - 1847 - 602 páginas
...limbs straight and well shaped, but, like the rest of the inhabitants we have seen on the coast, they are particularly fond of painting their faces with a variety of colours, so that it is no easy matter to discover their real complexion; however, we prevailed on one woman... | |
| John Kennedy - 1851 - 318 páginas
...limbs straight and well-shaped, but, like the rest of the inhabitants we have seen on the coast, they are particularly fond of painting their faces with a variety of colours, so that it is no easy matter to discover their real complexion ; however, we prevailed on one woman,... | |
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