Voyages to the East-Indies, Volume 3G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798 - Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) |
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Page 400 - ... where they leave behind them an inconceivable quantity of slime and filth : yet these canals are sometimes cleaned ; but the cleaning them is so managed as to become as great a nuisance as the foulness of the water : for the black mud that is taken from the bottom is suffered to lie upon the banks, that is, in the middle of the street, till it has acquired a sufficient degree of hardness to be made the lading of a boat and carried away. As this mud consists chiefly of human ordure, which is regularly...
Page 283 - In the day-time, the fea appears as ufual ; but in the night, it aflumes a milkwhite hue, and the reflection of it in the air is fo great, that the fky cannot be diftinguifhed from the water. Land is very eafily difcerned by night, in it, for the land appears very black in the middle of the whitenefs.
Page 138 - Christians, and despicable poor wretches of the lowest caste, uniform in nothing but the bad state of their muskets, none of which are either clean or complete ; and few are provided with either ammunition or accoutrements. They are commanded by half-caste people of Portuguese and French extraction, who draw off the attention of...
Page 401 - Even the running streams become nuisances in their turn, by the nastiness or negligence of the people : for every now and then a dead hog, or a dead horse, is stranded upon the shallow parts, and it being the business of no particular person to remove the nuisance, it is negligently left to time and accident.
Page 137 - ... There were not to be seen among them those fantastic figures in armour so common among the Mohammedans, in the nizam's, or, as they style themselves, the Mogul army; adventurers collected from every quarter of the East, who, priding themselves on individual valour, think it beneath them to be useful but on the day of battle, and, when that comes, prove only the inefficiency of numbers, unconnected by any general principle of union or discipline.
Page 197 - Ihort, but the women let grow long, and roll up in a circle on the top of their heads very neatly. The men go entirely naked, and the women wear nothing more than a very narrow flip •of plantain leaf.
Page 281 - We had, for some days preceding the 6th of October, seen albatrosses, pintadoes, and other peterels; and now we saw three penguins, which occasioned us to sound ; but we found no ground with a line of one hundred and fifty fathoms. " On the 8th, in the evening, one of those birds which sailors call noddies, settled on our rigging, and was caught.
Page 21 - ... they then rub both edges with a sort of glue, which becomes, by age, as hard as iron, and they cover it with a thin layer of capoc, after which they unite the planks so firmly and closely with pegs, that the seam is scarcely visible, and the whole seems to form one entire piece of timber.
Page 138 - The park of artillery, where all their guns are collected, made an extraordinary appearance. The gun-carriages, in which they trust to the solidity of the timber, and use but little iron in their construction, are clumsy beyond belief; particularly the wheels, which are low, and formed of large solid pieces of wood united. The guns are of all sorts and dimensions...
Page 375 - ... the two angels who, after their death, examine into their conduct while in this world. The Javanese are, in general, well-shaped; of a light-brown colour; with black eyes and hair, their eyes being much sunk in the head. They have flattish noses and large mouths. In figure, they are generally thin, though muscular; here and there only a corpulent person being seen. The women, when young...