“A” General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World: Many of which are Now First Translated Into English, Volume 16

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Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme (etc.), 1814 - Voyages and travels
 

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Page 50 - As to the former of these intentions, the fine shavings of the horns taken internally were supposed to cure convulsions and spasms in children. With respect to the latter, it was generally believed that goblets made of these horns in a turner's lathe would discover a poisonous draught that was put into them, by making the liquor ferment till it ran quite out of the goblet. Such horns as were taken from a rhinoceros calf were said to be the best, and the most to be depended upon." " The horn of the...
Page 9 - ... the blood of the turtle was much cried up, which, on account of this extraordinary virtue, the inhabitants dry in the form of small scales or membranes, and carry about them when they travel in this country, which swarms with this most noxious vermin. Whenever any one is wounded by a serpent, he takes a couple of pinches of the dried blood internally, and applies a little of it to the wound...
Page 487 - Chirurgeons, whose Province it is, they are thoroughly examined, even to the smallest Member, and that naked too both Men and Women, without the least Distinction or Modesty. Those which are approved as good are set on one side; and the lame or faulty are set by as Invalides, which are here called Mackrom.
Page 617 - This sight pleased me so well, that I w°ould have it repeated : and to try their strength, I made a full-grown negro mount the smallest, and two others the largest. This burden did not seem to me at all disproportioned to their strength.
Page 332 - But he that cannot urine presently falls down, and all the people, great and small, fall upon him with their knives, and beat and cut him into pieces. But I think the witch that gives the water is partial, and gives to him whose death is desired the strongest water, but no man of the bye-standers can perceive it.
Page 4 - European, who married a. •tawny flave, remains tawny, but approaches to a white complexion ; but the children of the third generation, mixed with Europeans, become quite white, and are often remarkably beautiful.
Page 431 - alter strangely ; their ears grow long and stiff like those of foxes, to which colour they also incline, so that in three or four years, they degenerate into very ugly creatures ; and in three or four broods their barking turns into a howl.
Page 1 - The male slaves wear their own hair, upon which they set a great value, wrapped up in a twisted handkerchief like a turban, and the females wreath up their hair and fix it on their heads with a large pin.
Page 271 - An old traveller recites how at the appearance of every new moon the Congo negroes " fall on their knees, or else cry out, standing and clapping their hands, ' So may I renew my life as thou art renewed.
Page 457 - Portuguese came to this coast (Guinea), the negroes subsisted themselves with these two fruits (yams and sweet potatoes! and a few roots of trees, they being then utterly ignorant of Milhio (maize), which was brought hither by that nation.

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