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" Their colour we could never positively determine, as their bodies were incrusted with paint and dirt ; though, in particular cases, when these were well rubbed off, the whiteness of the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans, though rather of... "
A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th Century - Página 224
por Robert Kerr - 1815
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A general history and collection of voyages and travels, arranged ..., Tema 30

General history - 1814 - 798 páginas
...of the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans; though rather of that pale effete cast which distinguishes those of our southern nations. Their...the particular animation attending that period of lite ; for, after attaining a certain age, there is hardly any distinction. Upon the whole, a very...
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Researches, Philosophical and Antiquarian, Concerning the Aboriginal History ...

James Haines McCulloh - 1829 - 548 páginas
...the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans, though rather of that pale effete cast, which distinguishes those of our southern nations. Their...children, whose skins had never been stained with paint, equalled ours in whiteness." (Cook's Voyage, New Hemisphere, ii. 303.) Sebastian Vizcaino says, at...
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The Voyages of Captain James Cook: Illustrated with Maps and Numerous ...

James Cook - 1842 - 654 páginas
...of the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans, though rather of that pale effete cast which distinguishes those of our southern nations. Their...Upon the whole, a very remarkable sameness seems to characterise the countenances of the whole nation, a dull phlegmatic want of expression, with very...
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The Voyages of Captain James Cook: Illustrated with Maps and Numerous ...

James Cook - 1842 - 644 páginas
...of the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans, though rather of that pale effete cast which distinguishes those of our southern nations. Their...compared to the generality of the people ; but this scems to be entirely owing to the particular animation attending that period of life, for after attaining...
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Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind, Volumen5

James Cowles Prichard - 1847 - 602 páginas
...almost equal to that of Europeans ; though rather of the pale effete cast, which distinguishes that of our southern nations. Their children whose skins had never been stained also equalled ours in whiteness. A very remarkable sameness seems to characterize the whole nation,...
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Heroes of the Northland: Being Brief Biographies Supplementing Canadian History

John Ormsby Miller - 1902 - 176 páginas
...dirt, though in particular cases the whiteness of the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans. Their children, whose skins had never been stained with paint, also equalled ours in whiteness. . . . Their common dress is a flaxen garment or mantle, ornamented on the upper edge by a narrow strip...
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The Making of the Modern Self: identity and culture in eighteenth-century ...

Dror Wahrman - 2004 - 444 páginas
...these were well rubbed off, the whiteness of the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans. . . . Their children, whose skins had never been stained with paint, also equalled ours in whiteness." Or Cook yet again, on the inhabitants of the island of Tanna: "They make themselves blacker than they...
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The North American Indian. Volume 11 - The Nootka. The Haida. ~ Paperbound

315 páginas
...of the skin appeared almost to equal that of Europeans; though rather of that pale effete cast which distinguishes those of our Southern nations. Their...stained with paint, also equalled ours in whiteness. . . . Upon the whole, a very remarkable sameness seems to characterize the countenances of the whole...
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