 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1821 - 524 pàgines
...on}y hungry ; and it was not in order to be consulted, but devoured. An historian of great veracity, Abd-Allatif, has related, how a practice, which at...horror, soon occasioned not the slightest surprise*." Although the Indians of the Cassiquiare readily return to their barbarous habits, they display, * Account... | |
 | 1821 - 658 pàgines
...only hungry ; and it was not in order to be consulted, but devoured. An historian of great veracity, Abd-Allatif, has related, how a practice, which at...horror, soon occasioned not the slightest surprise.* " Next to the contemplation of this feast of the anthropophagi, we recommend the following for its... | |
 | 1821 - 656 pàgines
...only hungry ; and it was not in order to be consulted, but devoured. An historian of great veracity, Abd-Allatif, has related, how a practice, which at...horror, soon occasioned not the slightest surprise.* " Next to the contemplation of this feast of the anthropophagi, we recommend the following for its... | |
 | 1822 - 690 pàgines
...only hungry ; and it was not in order to be consulted, but devoured. An historian of great veracity, Abd-Allatif, has related, how a practice, which at...horror, soon occasioned not the slightest surprise."* Next to the contemplation of this feast of the anthropophagi, we recommend the following for its singularity,... | |
 | 1824 - 458 pàgines
...only hungry ; and it was- not in order to consult, but to devour them. An historian of great veracity, Abd-Allatif, has related, how a practice which at...horror, soon occasioned not the slightest surprise. He says : " When the poor began to eat human flesh, the horror and astonishment caused by repasts so... | |
 | 1824 - 458 pàgines
...and it was not in order to consult, but to devour them. An historian of great veracity, Abd- Allatif, has related, how a practice which at first inspired...horror, soon occasioned not the slightest surprise. He says : " When the poor began to eat human flesh, the horror and astonishment caused by repasts so... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1827 - 894 pàgines
...only hungry ; and it was not in order to be consulted, but devoured. An historian of great veracity, Abd-Allatif, has related, how a practice, which at...horror, soon occasioned not the slightest surprise *." Although the Indians of the Cassiquiare readily return to their barbarous habits, they display,... | |
 | 1834 - 438 pàgines
...only hungry; and it was not in order to consult, but to devour them. A historian of great veracity, Abd-Allatif, has related how a practice which at first...horror, soon occasioned not the slightest surprise. He says : "When the poor began to eat human flesh, the horror and astonishment caused by repasts so... | |
 | 1907 - 764 pàgines
...only hungry; and it was not in order to be consulted, but devoured. An historian of great veracity, Abd-allatif, has related how a practice, which at...horror, soon occasioned not the slightest surprise." " There are three islands : this one on which we are is called by the natives Tiiruqiteira;1 the -other,... | |
 | 1906 - 428 pàgines
...only hungry; and it was not in order to be consulted, but devoured. An historian of great veracity, Abdallatif, has related how a practice, which at first...horror, soon occasioned not the slightest surprise." eyebrows stained circularly around, which I think they do for ostentation, and also because it gives... | |
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... habit of eating human flesh pervaded all classes of society ; extraordinary snares were spread for physicians in particular. They were called to attend persons, who pretended to be sick, but who were only hungry ; and it was not in order to be consulted,... 
