 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1799 - 614 pages
...employed by the Pagan natives in keeping their women in fubjecYion ; for as the Kafirs are not reftrided in the number of their wives, every one marries as...ladies difagree among themfelves, family quarrels fometimes rife to fuch a height, that the authority of the hulband can no longer preferve peace in... | |
 | 1799 - 686 pages
...employed by the Pagan native« in keeping their women in fubjeilion; for, as the Kafirs are not reftrided in the number of their wives, every one marries as...happens that the ladies difagree among themfelves, f.imily quarrels fomedmes rife to fuch a height, that the authority of the hulband ели no longer... | |
 | English literature - 1799 - 614 pages
...employed by the Pagan natives in .keeping their women in fubjeftion ; for as the Kafirs are not reftrifted in the number of their wives, every one marries as...frequently happens that the ladies difagree among thenifeives, family quarrels fnmctimes rife to fuch a height, that the authority of the hliiband can... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1799 - 520 pages
...employed by the Pagan natives in keeping their women in subjection ; for as the Kafirs are not restricted in the number of their wives, every one marries as...maintain ; and as it frequently happens that the ladies disagree among themselves, family * I believe that similar charms or amulets, under the names of dotnini,... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1799 - 524 pages
...Pagan natives in keeping their women in subjection ; for as the Kafirs are not restricted in thenumber of their wives, every one marries as many as he can...maintain ; and as it frequently happens that the ladies disagree among themselves, family * I believe that similar charms or amulets, under the names of domini,... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 636 pages
...by the I'.ig.ui natives in keeping their women in subjeflion -, fur as the Kafirs are not restricted in the number of their wives, every one marries as...maintain ; and as it frequently happens that the ladies disagree among themselves, family quarrels sometime* rise to such a height, that the authority of the... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1807 - 594 pages
...employed by the Pagan natives in keeping their women in subjection; for -as the Kafirs are not restricted in the number of their wives, every one marries as many as he can convent ently maintain ; and as it frequently happens that the ladies disagree among themselves, family... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1813 - 374 pages
...employed by the Pagan natives, in keeping their women in subjection ; for as the Kafirs are not restricted in the number of their wives, every one marries as...maintain ; and as it frequently happens that the ladies disagree among themselves, family quarrels sometimes rise to such a height, that the authority of the... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1816 - 576 pages
...employed by the Pagan natives in keeping their women in subjection ; for as the Kafirs are not restricted in the number of their wives, every one marries as...maintain ; and as it frequently happens that the ladies disagree among themselves, family quarrels sometimes rise to such a height, that the authority of the... | |
 | James Riley - Africa, North - 1817 - 998 pages
...and corroborated by a parallel passage from Park. " As the Kafirs (Pagan Negroes) are not restricted in " the number of their wives, every one marries...maintain ; and as it frequently " happens that the ladies disagree amongst themselves, " family quarrels sometimes rise to such a height that the " authority... | |
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This is a strange bugbear, common to all the Mandingo towns, and much employed by the pagan natives in keeping their women in subjection ; for, as the Kafirs are not restricted in the number of their wives, every one marries as many as he can conveniently... 
