 They attach great importance to certain forms of the body ; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ artificial means, to shape the calf of the leg after the fashion of the country. As none of our...  Humboldt's travels and discoveries in South America - Page 143by Alexander von Humboldt - 1840 - 278 lehteFull view - About this book
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...importance to certain forms of the body; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ artificial means,...are made at this season in several islands of the Oroonoko for collecting turtles' eggs.' — p. 465. The natives, it seems, have retained a belief that... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 590 lehte
...to certain forms of the body ; and a mother would be accused *\ of"*culpal)le indifference toward^ her children, if she did not employ artificial means,...are made at this season in several islands of the Oroonoko for collecting turtles' eggs. Near Encaramada a very long island divides the river into two... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 622 lehte
...importance to certain forms of the body; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ artificial means,...are made at this season in several islands of the Oroonoko for collecting turtles' eggs.' — p. 465. The natives, it seems, have retained a belief that... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 lehte
...importance to certain forms of the body ; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifr ference toward her children, if she did not employ artificial means,...fashion of the country. As none of our Indians of Apart: understood the Caribbee language, we could obtain no information from the Cacique of Panama... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1819 - 602 lehte
...importance to certain forms of the body ; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ artificial means,...the leg after the fashion of the country. As none of oiir Indians of Apure understood the Caribbee language, we could obtain no information from the Cacique... | |
 | William Bingley - 1820 - 368 lehte
...importance to certain forms of body ; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ artificial means...calf of the leg after the fashion of the country. On the 6th of April, continuing to ascend the Oronokoj first toward the south, and then toward the... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1822 - 846 lehte
...importance to certain forms of the body ; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ artificial means...calf of the leg after the fashion of the country." .SECTION IX. 6OAHIROS. THE Goahiros are a nation situated between the jurisdiction of Maracaibo and... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1822 - 844 lehte
...importance to certain forms of the body ; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ artificial means...calf of the leg after the fashion of the country." SECTION IX. GOAHIROS. THE Goahiros are a nation situated between the jurisdiction of Maracaibo and... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1825 - 602 lehte
...importance to certain forms of the body; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ artificial means,...are made at this season in several islands of the Oroonoko for collecting turtles' eggs. the Rio Cabullare, which is formed by the Payara and the Atamaica,... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland - 1852 - 538 lehte
...to certain configurations of the body; and a mother would be accused of culpable indifference toward her children, if she did not employ artificial means...islands of the Orinoco for collecting turtles' eggs. Near Encaramada a very long island divides the river into two branches. "We passed the night in a rocky... | |
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