 | R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 508 pages
...and employed by the pagan natives in keeping the women in subjection; for, as they are not restricted in the number of their wives, every one marries as many as he can conveniently maintain ; and it often happens that the ladies disagree among themselves : family quarrels sometimes rise to such... | |
 | Robert Huish - Adams, Robert - 1836 - 824 pages
...by the pagan natives in keeping their women in subjection, for as the It n firs are not restricted in the number of their wives, every one marries as many as he can maintain, and, as it frequently happens, that the ladies disagree among themselves, family quarrels... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1840 - 262 pages
...called bushreens, and the pagans kafirs, infidels, or unbelievers. 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... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1841 - 356 pages
...the Pagan natives in keeping the women in suhjection ; for, as they are not restricted in the numher of their wives, every one marries as many as he can conveniently maintain, and it often happens that the ladies disagree among themselves : family quarrels sometimes rise to such... | |
 | Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...employed by the Pagan natives in keeping the women in subjection ; for, as they are not restricted in the number of their wives, every one marries as many as he can conveniently maintain, and it often happens that the ladies disagree among themselves : family quarrels sometimes rise to such... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1892 - 688 pages
...employed by the pagan natives in keeping their women in subjection, for, as the Kaffirs are not restricted in the number of their wives, every one marries as...conveniently maintain ; and as it frequently happens that tbe ladies do not agree among themselves, family quarrels sometimes rise to such a height, that the... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1860 - 434 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...he can conveniently maintain ; and as it frequently * I believe that similar charms or amulets, under the names of damini, grigri, fetich, etc., etc.,... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - Anonyms and pseudonyms - 1865 - 462 pages
...employed by the pagan natives in keeping their women in subjection; for, as the Kaffirs are not restricted in the number of their wives, every one marries as...maintain ; and, as it frequently happens that the ladies do uot agree among themselves, family quarrels sometimes rise to such a height, that the authority... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - Africa - 1874 - 560 pages
...negroes in keeping their women in subjection. As the Kaffirs, or pagan Africans, are not restricted in the number of their wives, every one marries as many as he can conveniently maintain ; and it frequently happens that the ladies disagree among themselves, their quarrels sometimes reaching... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1878 - 440 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... | |
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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... 
