The North Pacific Surveying and Exploring Expedition, Or, My Last Cruise: Where We Went and what We Saw, Being an Account of Visits to the Malay and Loo-Choo Islands, the Coasts of China, Formosa, Japan, Kamtschatka, Siberia, and the Mouth of the Amoor RiverJ.B. Lippincott, 1858 - 507 Seiten |
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Seite 42 - Multum in parvo, pro bono publico ; Entertainment for man and beast all of a row. Lekker Kost as much as you please ; Excellent beds, without any fleas. " Nos patriam fugimus ; now we are here, Vivamus, let us live, by Belling beer. On donne a boire et a manger ici : Come in and try it, whoever you be." Upon drawing up in front of the establishment from which this rare signboard was hung, we were received by the Gentle Shepherd of Salisbury Plain...
Seite 303 - Broughton declares that their bodies are almost universally covered with long, black hair, and that he observed the same appearance even in some young children.
Seite 497 - In examining this work, 1 have received an indirect and incidental, but very strong impression of its great superiority, in fulness and accuracy, to any Dictionary of Geography with which I am acquainted.
Seite 169 - Formosa which the Chinese possess, presents extensive and fertile plains, watered by a great number of rivulets, that fall from the eastern mountains. Its air is pure and wholesome, and the earth produces, in abundance, corn, rice, and most other kinds of grain. Most of the Indian fruits are found here, such as oranges, bananas, pine-apples, guavas, cocoa-nuts ; and part of those of Europe, particularly peaches, apricots, figs, grapes, chestnuts, pomegranates, water-melons, &c. Tobacco, sugar, pepper,...
Seite 302 - ... countenance is much more regular. The women are ugly enough: their colour, which is dark, their coal-black hair combed over their faces, blue-painted lips, and tattooed hands, allow them no pretensions to beauty. " La Perouse says ' they are a very superior race to the Chinese, Japanese, and Mantschoos, and their countenances are more regular, and more similar to those of Europeans The inhabitants of the Bay of Crillon were particularly beautiful and of regular features.
Seite 306 - Kurile' of the party, we selected him as the one most likely to substantiate the assertion of Broughton in regard to ' their bodies being almost universally covered with long black hair/ He readily bared his arms and shoulders for inspection, and (if I except a tuft of hair on each shoulder-blade, of the size of one's hand) we found his body to be no more hairy than that of several of our own men. The existence of...
Seite 305 - As a general rule, they shave the front of the head a la Japanese. and, though the remaining hair is undoubtedly very thick and coarse, yet it is also very straight, and owes its bushy appearance to the simple fact of constant scratching and seldom combing.
Seite 497 - Pronouncing Gazetteer/ more particularly in relation to Pronunciation, 1 take pleasure in expressing a concurrence, generally, in what is said by the Hon. Edward Everett, of the value and excellence of the work. The difficult subject of the pronunciation of geographical names appears tc me to have been attended to with great care, good taste, and sound judgment ; and this feature of the Gazetteer must add greatly to iU value.
Seite 302 - Ainos is, that, though the eastern Asiatics are in general very deficient in hair and almost beardless, they are the most hairy race of people in the world. 'Their beards,' says La Perouse, 'hang upon their breasts, and their arms, neck, and back are covered with hair. I observed this circumstance,' he adds, 'as a general characteristic, for it is easy to find individuals equally hairy in Europe.
Seite 302 - Ainos that we have yet received is to be found in the narrative of Von Krusenstern's voyage. " Some particulars respecting them were given by La Perouse and Broughton. The former of these writers says that ' the Ainos are rather below the middle stature, being at most five feet two or four inches high. They have a thick, bushy beard, black, rough hair, hanging straight down ; and, excepting in the beard, they have the appearance of the Kamtschadales, only their countenance is much more regular.