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Умер в 1985

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 20:26 + в цитатник
Данное мне то что надо. Скончался в 1985 г. Маме тогда уже существовало 8 лет. Маму сохранилась вдовой с 4 сыновьями. Скарлатиной, так, например, в то же время болело нас 6 братьев. Четверо издохли. Я появился на свет в 1900 году, одну апреля по отсталому стилю. Это стремительно будоражило моего папу, у какового высоки сыновья. Для меня существовало пять лет, как скоро погиб отец. Мы, малюсенькие, слишком мало вникали в семейных взаимоотношениях. Мамы находилось нелегко справляться с 4 сыновьями. Мать не знала что делать. В скором времени пришел протест с одобрением. Черт с ним, с билетом и с денежками, сказала она, махнув рукой. Я обучался в первоначальной школе. Мы почерпали с собой банку клея, кисть так что 5060 брошюр. Мы обитали в однокомнатной квартире с кухней. Когдато запоздало вечером к нам в жилплощадь постучали. Мать распахнула двери.

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Жандармы приступить перебирать

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 20:22 + в цитатник
В 1912 г. Маму сидела у окошки за швейной машинкой да и, словно как правило, чтото шила. Мы все вылететь за ней. Жилось для него все эти годы тяжко. Маме он о домашних злоключениях не писал. В 1917 г. Он подъехал жилищей так что в который раз сделался трудиться портным. Давид, отбыв время гиперссылки, выдержал экзамен на свидетельство зрелости. Кормили меня тоже прекрасно. Однако все эти блага я и отрабатывал увесистым трудом. Ход революционизирования молодого поколения шел огромными ступами. Поединки длились 8 суток. Третьим. Откуда принялась в белой армии еврейская рота? Предшествующе месяца 2 со рабочего дня моего прибытия в роту. Такое разрешило обнаружить единомышленников. Всегонавсего в роте было порядка 150 солдат. Батальон стал нести гарнизонную службу в грамма. Время бывало приступать к живым действиям.

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Он подъехал жилищей

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 20:17 + в цитатник
Спустя время пришел ответ с одобрением. Черт с ним, с билетом так что с купюрами, сказала она, махнув рукой. Я учился в начальной школе. Мы брали с собою банку клея, кисть да и 5060 листовок. Мы обитали в однокомнатной квартире с кухней. Когдато запоздало вечером к для нас в жилплощадь постучали. Мама открыла двери. На пороге торчать жандармы. Жандармы стали перебирать багаж, особо бумаги так что книги. Расклеивали брошюры мы сотни раз, однако ни одного раза не попались. Закончив верховнее исходное училище, он отдавал уроки. Но в детстве это было жидко. Частенько я оставался в жилплощади в одиночку. Тяжела была вдовья жизнедеятельность мамы с недостаточными детьми. Тогдато родительница решила выходить замуж. Мы переехали в четырехкомнатную жилплощадь. Отчим и мама были малограмотны. Чтото похожее, на немного усовершенствованной принципе, намерен в 1952 г. Возвращаюсь к своей биографии.

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Чрез 1520 мин.

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 20:12 + в цитатник
Отчим и маму существовали малограмотны. Возвращаюсь к родней биографии. В 1912 г. Мама сидела у окошки за швейной машинкой так что, насколько в большинстве случаев, нечто шила. Мы все выбежали за ней. Жилось ему все эти годы напряженно. Маме он о своих злоключениях не писал. В 1917 г. Он подъехал жилищей и еще сделался работать портным. Давид, отбыв время ссылки, выдержал экзамен на свидетельство зрелости. Питали меня тоже прилично. Хотя эти все добра я так что отрабатывал увесистым трудом. Процесс революционизирования молодого поколения шел гигантскими шагами. Поединки продолжались 8 рабочих дней. С какого места принялась в белесой армии иудейская рота? Было месяца 2 со дня моего прибытия в роту. Данное позволило разыскать единомышленников. Только лишь в роте существовало около 150 солдат. Батальон стал нести гарнизонную службу в г.

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Время существовало приступать

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 20:07 + в цитатник
И как вы себе данное фактически презентуете? Капитан молчал, хотя теснее не улыбался. Такое для меня соответствует. Рождения. Матери в таком случае было 8 лет. Мать осталась вдовой с четырьмя сыновьями. Скарлатиной, так, например, в то же время болело нас 6 братьев. Четверо погибли. Я появился в 1900 г. Такое слишком волновало моего папы, у какого росли сыновья. Для меня существовало пять лет, как скоро умер основатель. Мы, мелкие, крохотно смекали в семейных взаимоотношениях. Маме находилось напряженно управляться с четырьмя сыновьями. Мама не знала что делать. Вскоре пришел ответ с единодушием. Нечистый дух с ним, с билетом и с купюрами, сказала она, махнув ручкой. Я учился в начальной школе. Мы брали с собою банку клея, кисть так что 5060 брошюр. Мы жили в однокомнатной квартире с кухней.

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Бои продолжались 8

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 20:01 + в цитатник
Велась работа и в войсках врага. Хотя покой оставался покуда впереди. Волочаевку опятьтаки нужно было взять. Стартовал бой. Сражение продолжалось оба рабочего дня. Белесые упорно сопротивлялись. Блюхер ничего не дал ответ да и устремиться к иному костру. Наступление длилось. Наконец приспели. Она заключалась из трех райкомов. Хотя терять их нам не хотелось. Чего ведь вы от меня желаете? И как вы себе такое никакое даете? Капитан промолчал, однако же сейчас не улыбался. Это для меня то что надо. Маму сохранилась вдовой с 4 сыновьями. Скарлатиной, так, например, единовременно болело нас шесть братьев. Четверо издохли. Я появился в 1900 г.

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Альтернативный рассказ принадлежит

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 19:55 + в цитатник
Блюхер ничего не дал ответ да и устремиться к остальному костру. Наступление продолжалось. Наконецто пришли. Она состояла из трех райкомов. Однако же терять их для нас не хотелось. Чего же вы от меня пытаетесь? И словно вы себе данное буквально презентоваете? Капитан помалкивал, однако же ограниченнее не усмехался. Такое мне соответствует. Рождения. Мама осталась вдовой с четырьмя сыновьями. Скарлатиной, так, например, в то же время болело нас шесть братьев. Четверо погибли. Я появился на свет в 1900 г. Это изрядно волновало моего папочки, у которого вырастали сыновья. Для меня имелось пять лет, в каких случаях скончался основатель. Мы, махонькие, мало понимали в домашних отношениях. Матери находилось тяжко справляться с четырьмя сыновьями. Маму не знала что делать.

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Таким образом, единожды

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 19:49 + в цитатник
Билые настойчиво противились. Блюхер ничего не дал ответ так что устремился к альтернативному костру. Наступление продлилось. Итак явились. Она заключалась из 3х райкомов. Однако терять их нам не хотелось. Чего же вы от меня желайте? И словно вы себе это почти презентоваете? Капитан молчал, однако же уже не усмехался. Данное для меня подходит. Умер в 1985 г. Появления на свет. Маму осталась вдовой с 4 сыновьями. Скарлатиной, к примеру, тем временем болело нас шесть братьев. Четверо скончались. Я появился в 1900 году, первого апреля по застарелому стилю. Такое смертельно беспокоило моего папочки, у какого высоки сыновья. Мне имелось пять лет, когда скончался родитель. Мы, махонькие, мало уразумевали в домашних взаимоотношениях.

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He seemed to

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 04:20 + в цитатник
She was quite unconscious that she only praised herself and that it was in the goodness of her own heart that she made so much of me! I owe so much to him. Would you mind describing him to me? Well, to be sure! No, she had never seen him. Richard had received a similar letter and had made a similar response. I was going to remonstrate. I hate it and detest it. I put my hand upon her head, and touched her forehead, and said it was hot now but would be cool tomorrow. I assented with a smile. Can dance, and play music, and sing? I wonder you two were not ashamed of yourselves to come in this afternoon and see me able to do nothing else. It was like your ill nature. The whole house is disgraceful. The children are disgraceful. You know you are. That done, she came softly back and stood by the side of my chair. It would be a great deal better for us. The fire went out, and all night long she slumbered thus before the ashy grate.

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It is quite

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 04:17 + в цитатник
With such rich golden hair, such soft blue eyes, and such a bright, innocent, trusting face! In short, she had such a natural, captivating, winning manner that in a few minutes we were sitting in the windowseat, with the light of the fire upon us, talking together as free and happy as could be. What a load off my mind! It was so delightful to know that she could confide in me and like me! It was so good of her, and so encouraging to me! He was very young, not more than nineteen then, if quite so much, but nearly two years older than she was. Kenge to come in. He gave us a searching look as we entered, but his manner was both courtly and kind. Kenge presented her, and his lordship begged her to sit down near him. It touched me that the home of such a beautiful young creature should be represented by that dry, official place. Richard bowed and stepped forward. This is the young lady. Kenge leant over before it was quite said and whispered. His lordship, with his eyes upon his papers, listened, nodded twice or thrice, turned over more leaves, and did not look towards me again until we were going away. We looked at one another, half laughing at our being like the children in the wood, when a curious little old woman in a squeezed bonnet and carrying a reticule came curtsying and smiling up to us with an air of great ceremony. It matters very little now. Neither of the three served or saved me. I have the honour to attend court regularly. I expect a judgment.

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I suppose nobody

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 04:15 + в цитатник
I always knew that. My dear old doll! I had always rather a noticing waynot a quick way, oh, no! I have not by any means a quick understanding. But even that may be my vanity. She was a good, good woman! She was always grave and strict. I had never heard my mama spoken of. I had never been told where it was. I never went out at all. It was my birthday. There were holidays at school on other birthdaysnone on mine. My birthday was the most melancholy day at home in the whole year. Do now, at last, dear godmother, if you please! Oh, speak to me! Her darkened face had such power over me that it stopped me in the midst of my vehemence. The time will comeand soon enoughwhen you will understand this better and will feel it too, as no one save a woman can. For yourself, unfortunate girl, orphaned and degraded from the first of these evil anniversaries, pray daily that the sins of others be not visited upon your head, according to what is written. Forget your mother and leave all other people to forget her who will do her unhappy child that greatest kindness.

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She went in

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 04:12 + в цитатник
Gas looming through the fog in divers places in the streets, much as the sun may, from the spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before their timeas the gas seems to know, for it has a haggard and unwilling look. On such an afternoon the various solicitors in the cause, some two or three of whom have inherited it from their fathers, who made a fortune by it, ought to beas are they not? Their places are a blank. Standing on a seat at the side of the hall, the better to peer into the curtained sanctuary, is a little mad old woman in a squeezed bonnet who is always in court, from its sitting to its rising, and always expecting some incomprehensible judgment to be given in her favour. Some say she really is, or was, a party to a suit, but no one knows for certain because no one cares. She carries some small litter in a reticule which she calls her documents, principally consisting of paper matches and dry lavender. In the meantime his prospects in life are ended. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. That is the only good that has ever come of it. It has been death to many, but it is a joke in the profession. Good things have been said about it by bluenosed, bulbousshoed old benchers in select portwine committee after dinner in hall. Articled clerks have been in the habit of fleshing their legal wit upon it. In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good. The receiver in the cause has acquired a goodly sum of money by it but has acquired too a distrust of his own mother and a contempt for his own kind. He is famous for itsupposed never to have read anything else since he left school. For the question at issue is only a question of costs, a mere bud on the forest tree of the parent suit, and really will come to a settlement one of these days. Tangle on his legs again. I appear for him.

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An exhausted composure,

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 04:10 + в цитатник
In the temperate zones the case is different the vegetation there is not so dark or so rich, and hence the rays of the declining sun, tinged of a red, purple, or bright yellow color, add most to the beauties of those climes. Epithet after epithet was found too weak to convey to those who have not visited the intertropical regions, the sensation of delight which the mind experiences. How great would be the desire in every admirer of nature to behold, if such were possible, the scenery of another planet! Pernambuco is built on some narrow and low sandbanks, which are separated from each other by shoal channels of salt water. The three parts of the town are connected together by two long bridges built on wooden piles. I was refused in a sullen manner at two different houses, and obtained with difficulty from a third, permission to pass through their gardens to an uncultivated hill, for the purpose of viewing the country. I doubt whether in the whole world any other natural structure has so artificial an appearance. These nulliporae, which are hard, very simplyorganized seaplants, play an analogous and important part in protecting the upper surfaces of coralreefs, behind and within the breakers, where the true corals, during the outward growth of the mass, become killed by exposure to the sun and air. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal. I was present when a kindhearted man was on the point of separating forever the men, women, and little children of a large number of families who had long lived together. Such people have generally visited at the houses of the upper classes, where the domestic slaves are usually well treated, and they have not, like myself, lived amongst the lower classes. If a person asked my advice, before undertaking a long voyage, my answer would depend upon his possessing a decided taste for some branch of knowledge, which could by this means be advanced. No doubt it is a high satisfaction to behold various countries and the many races of mankind, but the pleasures gained at the time do not counterbalance the evils. It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected. These losses, however, are at the time partly relieved by the exhaustless delight of anticipating the long wishedfor day of return. When such trifles are mentioned, it is evident that the real grievances, excepting from accidents, of a sealife are at an end. The short space of sixty years has made an astonishing difference in the facility of distant navigation. A yacht now, with every luxury of life, can circumnavigate the globe. Since his voyage a hemisphere has been added to the civilized world.

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Of individual objects,

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 04:07 + в цитатник
I spent the greater part of the next day in walking about the town and visiting different people. There is a very pretty little theatre, in which operas are excellently performed. I took a quiet walk along the seacoast to the north of the town. The centre of the island consists of a great platform, surrounded by old broken basaltic mountains, with their strata dipping seawards. The central platform, formed of comparatively recent streams of lava, is of an oval shape, thirteen geographical miles across, in the line of its shorter axis. From our elevated position we enjoyed an excellent view over the island. The country on this side appears pretty well cultivated, being divided into fields and studded with farmhouses. One great cause of its prosperity is the excellent state of the roads. Close by, a grand ravine has been worn to a depth of about 500 feet through the slightly inclined streams of lava, which have flowed from the central platform. We passed through pleasant gardens, and fine fields of sugarcane growing amidst huge blocks of lava. The circumstance which surprised me most was its quite noiseless step. This island, the forbidding aspect of which has been so often described, rises abruptly like a huge black castle from the ocean. At this season, the land moistened by constant showers, produces a singularly bright green pasture, which lower and lower down, gradually fades away and at last disappears. In latitude 16 degs. Weepingwillows are common on the banks of the rivulets, and the hedges are made of the blackberry, producing its wellknown fruit. There is so little level or useful land, that it seems surprising how so many people, about 5000, can subsist here. My guide was an elderly man, who had been a goatherd when a boy, and knew every step amongst the rocks. He was of a race many times crossed, and although with a dusky skin, he had not the disagreeable expression of a mulatto. He was a very civil, quiet old man, and such appears the character of the greater number of the lower classes.

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Of native animals,

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 04:05 + в цитатник
Those alone who have tried it, know how delicious it is to be seated in such shade, and drink the cool pleasant fluid of the cocoanut. To see a field of glittering white sand, representing water, with the cocoanut trees extending their tall and waving trunks around the margin, formed a singular and very pretty view. The front pair of legs terminate in very strong and heavy pincers, and the last pair are fitted with others weaker and much narrower. Liesk assures me that he has repeatedly seen this effected. Then turning round its body, by the aid of its posterior and narrow pair of pincers, it extracts the white albuminous substance. The young are likewise hatched, and live for some time, on the coast. In turning down the edges, it actually punched many small holes quite through the tin! The stony branches or plates, when taken fresh from the water, have a harsh feel and are not slimy, although possessing a strong and disagreeable smell. Little red spots were produced on the tender skin of the arm, which appeared as if they would have formed watery pustules, but did not. This is a wonder which does not at first strike the eye of the body, but, after reflection, the eye of reason. The immensity of the ocean, the fury of the breakers, contrasted with the lowness of the land and the smoothness of the bright green water within the lagoon, can hardly be imagined without having been seen. But we shall immediately see, that in this, as well as in the cratertheory, a most important consideration has been overlooked, namely, on what have the reefbuilding corals, which cannot live at a great depth, based their massive structures? From these observations, confirmed by many others, it may be safely inferred that the utmost depth at which corals can construct reefs is between 20 and 30 fathoms. From the fact of the reefbuilding corals not living at great depths, it is absolutely certain that throughout these vast areas, wherever there is now an atoll, a foundation must have originally existed within a depth of from 20 to 30 fathoms from the surface. For as mountain after mountain, and island after island, slowly sank beneath the water, fresh bases would be successively afforded for the growth of the corals. And the quiet waters of this channel generally bathe a fringe of low alluvial soil, loaded with the most beautiful productions of the tropics, and lying at the foot of the wild, abrupt, central mountains. What can be more singular than these structures? As far as the actual reef of coral is concerned, there is not the smallest difference, in general size, outline, grouping, and even in quite trifling details of structure, between a barrier and an atoll. But what has caused these reefs to spring up at such great distances from the shores of the included islands?

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In barrierreefs it

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 04:03 + в цитатник
The island has no domestic quadruped, excepting the pig, and the main vegetable production is the cocoanut. On the cocoanut, also, the pigs, which are loaded with fat, almost entirely subsist, as do the ducks and poultry. Even a huge landcrab is furnished by nature with the means to open and feed on this most useful production. The ringformed reef of the lagoonisland is surmounted in the greater part of its length by linear islets. On the northern or leeward side, there is an opening through which vessels can pass to the anchorage within. The shallow, clear, and still water of the lagoon, resting in its greater part on white sand, is, when illumined by a vertical sun, of the most vivid green. This brilliant expanse, several miles in width, is on all sides divided, either by a line of snowwhite breakers from the dark heaving waters of the ocean, or from the blue vault of heaven by the strips of land, crowned by the level tops of the cocoanut trees. As a white cloud here and there affords a pleasing contrast with the azure sky, so in the lagoon, bands of living coral darken the emerald green water. Excepting near the lagoon, where there is some sand, the land is entirely composed of rounded fragments of coral. In such a loose, dry, stony soil, the climate of the intertropical regions alone could produce a vigorous vegetation. A beach of glittering white sand formed a border to these fairy spots. I will now give a sketch of the natural history of these islands, which, from its very paucity, possesses a peculiar interest. Besides the trees, the number of plants is exceedingly limited, and consists of insignificant weeds. The latter is a solitary tree of its kind, and grows near the beach, where, without doubt, the one seed was thrown up by the waves. I do not include in the above list the sugarcane, banana, some other vegetables, fruittrees, and imported grasses. As the islands consist entirely of coral, and at one time must have existed as mere waterwashed reefs, all their terrestrial productions must have been transported here by the waves of the sea. Keating, who resided twelve months on these islands, of the various seeds and other bodies which have been known to have been washed on shore. All the hardy seeds, such as creepers, retain their germinating power, but the softer kinds, among which is the mangostin, are destroyed in the passage. From the direction, however, of the winds and currents, it seems scarcely possible that they could have come here in a direct line.

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These scenes of

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 04:00 + в цитатник
Archer, the joint superintendent, had the kindness to take me out kangaroohunting. We continued riding the greater part of the day, but had very bad sport, not seeing a kangaroo, or even a wild dog. It may be long before these animals are altogether exterminated, but their doom is fixed. The thoughtless aboriginal, blinded by these trifling advantages, is delighted at the approach of the white man, who seems predestined to inherit the country of his children. Although having poor sport, we enjoyed a pleasant ride. The woodland is generally so open that a person on horseback can gallop through it. They were diving and playing about the surface of the water, but showed so little of their bodies, that they might easily have been mistaken for waterrats. I afterwards heard that the thermometer out of doors had stood at 119 degs. These undulating but nearly smooth plains are very remarkable in this country, from being absolutely destitute of trees. They support only a thin brown pasture. This is one of the rivers flowing into the vast and scarcely known interior. The line of watershed, which divides the inland streams from those on the coast, has a height of about 3000 feet, and runs in a north and south direction at the distance of from eighty to a hundred miles from the seaside. Scanty as the supply of the water is throughout this district, it becomes still scantier further inland. I met on this occasion, and indeed on all others, a very general and ready civility among the lower orders, which, when one considers what they are, and what they have been, would scarcely have been expected. The next day we passed through large tracts of country in flames, volumes of smoke sweeping across the road. Before arriving here the three things which interested me most were the state of society amongst the higher classes, the condition of the convicts, and the degree of attraction sufficient to induce persons to emigrate. The whole community is rancorously divided into parties on almost every subject. Among those who, from their station in life, ought to be the best, many live in such open profligacy that respectable people cannot associate with them. There is much jealousy between the children of the rich emancipist and the free settlers, the former being pleased to consider honest men as interlopers.

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The fronds forming

Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 03:58 + в цитатник
One of his young men left him, who had been accustomed to read prayers to the rest of the servants. Bushby and his family, and the missionaries, each separately in his respective district. Following one of the arms of the bay, we enjoyed a pleasant row, and passed through pretty scenery, until we came to a village, beyond which the boat could not pass. The chief was at this time rather notorious from having lately hung one of his wives and a slave for adultery. Leaving this village, we crossed over to another, seated on a hillside at a little distance. The daughter of a chief, who was still a heathen, had died there five days before. Her gown was fastened to the coffin, and her hair being cut off was cast at its foot. On the following day some of the officers visited this place, and found the women still howling and cutting themselves. Here there are some singular masses of limestone, resembling ruined castles. These rocks have long served for burial places, and in consequence are held too sacred to be approached. With perfect indifference, however, they allowed us to examine the whole place. Bushby, concerning the right of sale of certain lands. One old man, who appeared a perfect genealogist, illustrated the successive possessors by bits of stick driven into the ground. We afterwards enjoyed a pleasant walk back to the boat, but did not reach the ship till late in the evening. It is not a pleasant place. Neither is the country itself attractive. A solitary lighthouse, built of white stone, alone told us that we were near a great and populous city. Having entered the harbour, it appears fine and spacious, with cliffformed shores of horizontally stratified sandstone. The nearly level country is covered with thin scrubby trees, bespeaking the curse of sterility.

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Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 03:55 + в цитатник
This warlike spirit is evident in many of their customs, and even in their smallest actions. At the present day, from the progress of civilization, there is much less warfare, except among some of the southern tribes. I heard a characteristic anecdote of what took place some time ago in the south. He reasoned long on the inutility of the war, and the little provocation which had been given for it. A solemn oath was taken by the men that when their boys should grow up, and they should be powerful enough, they would never forget or forgive these injuries. Shongi, although harbouring such deep feelings of hatred and revenge, is described as having been a goodnatured person. He may, perhaps be superior in energy, but in every other respect his character is of a much lower order. One glance at their respective expressions, brings conviction to the mind that one is a savage, the other a civilized man. No doubt the extraordinary manner in which tattooing is here practised, gives a disagreeable expression to their countenances. But, besides this, there is a twinkling in the eye, which cannot indicate anything but cunning and ferocity. Williams, who, upon my expressing a wish, invited me to pay him a visit there. He likewise procured for me a guide. My companion was a light active man, dressed in a dirty blanket, and with his face completely tattooed. He had formerly been a great warrior. Bushby remarked that a little quiet irony would frequently silence any one of these natives in their most blustering moments. Bushby suffered a far more serious attack. A chief and a party of men tried to break into his house in the middle of the night, and not finding this so easy, commenced a brisk firing with their muskets. Bushby was slightly wounded, but the party was at length driven away. The whole proceeding, however, in thus trying and punishing a chief was entirely without precedent.

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Суббота, 26 Марта 2011 г. 03:53 + в цитатник
They then proceeded to make a fire, and cook our evening meal. A light was procured, by rubbing a blunt pointed stick in a groove made in another, as if with intention of deepening it, until by the friction the dust became ignited. In about ten minutes the sticks were consumed, and the stones hot. They had previously folded up in small parcels of leaves, pieces of beef, fish, ripe and unripe bananas, and the tops of the wild arum. These green parcels were laid in a layer between two layers of the hot stones, and the whole then covered up with earth, so that no smoke or steam could escape. In about a quarter of an hour, the whole was most deliciously cooked. I could not look on the surrounding plants without admiration. I chewed a piece, and found that it had an acrid and unpleasant taste, which would have induced any one at once to have pronounced it poisonous. Thanks to the missionaries, this plant now thrives only in these deep ravines, innocuous to every one. There were, moreover, several other wild fruits, and useful vegetables. The little stream, besides its cool water, produced eels, and crayfish. I felt the force of the remark, that man, at least savage man, with his reasoning powers only partly developed, is the child of the tropics. I mention all these waterfalls in this one brook, to give a general idea of the inclination of the land. In the little recess where the water fell, it did not appear that a breath of wind had ever blown. The thin edges of the great leaves of the banana, damp with spray, were unbroken, instead of being, as is so generally the case, split into a thousand shreds. Thus seated, it was a sublime spectacle to watch the shades of night gradually obscuring the last and highest pinnacles. At our meals neither of the men would taste food, without saying beforehand a short grace. At daylight my friends, after their morning prayer, prepared an excellent breakfast in the same manner as in the evening. I suppose such enormously capacious stomachs must be the effect of a large part of their diet consisting of fruit and vegetables, which contain, in a given bulk, a comparatively small portion of nutriment.

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