 | Robert Moffat - 1842 - 686 sider
...our customs clumsy, awkward, and troublesome. They could not account for our putting our legs, feet, and arms into bags, and using buttons for the purpose...them as ornaments from the neck or hair of the head. Washing the body, instead of lubricating it with grease and red ochre, was a disgusting custom ; and... | |
 | 1842 - 844 sider
...our customs clumsy, awkward, and troublesome. They could not account for our putting our legs, feet, and arms into bags, and using buttons for the purpose...them as ornaments from the neck or hair of the head. Washing the body, instead of lubricating it with grease and red ochre, was a disgusting custom, and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 604 sider
...and gave a decided preference to their own : They could not account for our putting our legs, feet, and arms into bags, and using buttons for the purpose...bandages round our bodies, instead of suspending them as ornamenU from the neck or hair of the head. Washing the body, instead of lubricating it with grease... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 606 sider
...own : They could not account for our putting our legs, feet, and arms into bags, and using button» for the purpose of fastening bandages round our bodies, instead of suspending them as ornamente from the neck or hair of the head. Washing the body, instead of lubricating it with grease... | |
 | Ebenezer Prout - 1846 - 544 sider
...our customs clumsy, awkward, and troublesome. They could not account for our putting our legs, feet, and arms into bags, and using buttons for the purpose...them as ornaments from the neck or hair of the head. Washing the body, instead of lubricating it with grease and red ochre, was a disgusting custom, and... | |
 | Robert Moffat - 1846 - 186 sider
...troublesome. They could not account for our putting our legs, feet, and arms into bags, and using burtons for the purpose of fastening bandages round our bodies,...them as ornaments from the neck or hair of the head. Washing the body, instead of lubricating it with grease and red ochre, was a disgusting custom, and... | |
 | Charles John Andersson - 1856 - 612 sider
...coils round the waist and neck. Their wrists, arms, and ankles, moreover, are .encircled by wrings of copper, iron, and brass, of various forms and sizes....and cleanliness about one's food, house, bedding, &c., often creates their mirth and ridicule. The Bechuanas are great snuff-takers, and they indulge... | |
 | Charles John Andersson - 1856 - 560 sider
....besides the decoration of their own persons, they profusely ornament their skin, shirts, and cloaks, the whole being bedaubed with masses of fat and red ochre....and cleanliness about one's food, house, bedding, &c., often creates their mirth and ridicule. The Bechuanas are great snuff-takers, and they indulge... | |
 | Kensington series - 1872 - 296 sider
...our customs clumsy, awkward, and troublesome. They could not account for our putting our legs, feet, and arms into bags, and using buttons for the purpose...them as ornaments from the neck or hair of the head. Washing the body, instead of lubricating it with grease and red ochre, was a disgusting custom ; and... | |
 | 1877 - 996 sider
...could not understand our habits of cleanliness, and were much amused at our putting our legs, feet, and arms into bags,, and using buttons for the purpose of fastening bandages around our bodies, instead of suspending them as ornaments from the neck or hair of the head. A great... | |
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Notwithstanding the Bechuanas acknowledge us to be a superior race to themselves, they have no hesitation to pronounce many of our habits and customs both clumsy and troublesome. They laugh at us for putting our legs and arms into bags, and using buttons... 
