Stirring Scenes in Savage Lands: An Account of the Manners, Customs, Habits and Recreations, Peaceful and Warlike, of the Uncivilised WorldWard, Lock and Company, 1879 - 418 pages |
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Stirring Scenes in Savage Lands: An Account of the Manners, Customs, Habits ... James Greenwood Aucun aperçu disponible - 2016 |
Stirring Scenes in Savage Lands: An Account of the Manners, Customs, Habits ... James Greenwood Aucun aperçu disponible - 2017 |
Stirring Scenes in Savage Lands; An Account of the Manners, Customs, Habits ... James Greenwood Aucun aperçu disponible - 2016 |
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Page 205 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies...
Page 71 - ... to be correct, and he would refer back to the first couple of sticks ; and then his mind got hazy and confused, and wandered from one sheep to the other, and he broke off the transaction until two sticks were put into his hand, and one sheep driven away, and then the other two sticks given him, and the second sheep driven away...
Page 63 - It is also related, although I confess I can scarcely believe it, that on some occasions, when the brain has been injured as well as the bone, they have opened the skull, taken out the injured portion of the brain, and, having a pig ready, have killed it, taken out the pig's brains, put them in the man's head, and covered them up.