| Lawrence Dundas Campbell, E. Samuel - Books - 1800 - 1036 pages
...with the Cingalefe. They have no towns nor houfes, only live by the waters under a tree, with fome boughs cut and laid round about them, to give notice when any wild beafti come near, which they may hear by their milling and trampling upon them. Soine of the more civilized... | |
| Phrenology - 1832 - 700 pages
...near other inhabitants, have commerce \vrth other people. They have no towns nor house?, only Jive by the waters under a tree, with some boughs cut and laid round about i iu'in, to give notice when any wild beasts come near, which they may hear by their rustling and trampling... | |
| Sir George Barrow (2d bart.) - Sri Lanka - 1857 - 220 pages
...few, which are near inhabitants, have commerce with other people : they have no towns nor houses, only live by the waters under a tree, with some boughs...these habitations we saw when we fled through the weeds; but, God be praised! the Vaddahs were gone." Dr. Davy mentions the Veddahs—incidentally—... | |
| Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin - Science - 1882 - 448 pages
...Hartshorne lcp 413. 3) Bailey lcp 282. 4) Knox (lcp 123) sagt von ihnen: they have no towns nor houses, only live by the waters under a tree, with some boughs...laid round about them, to give notice when any wild beast come near, which they may heer by their rustling and trampling upon them. Er sah solche Plätze... | |
| Rudolf Virchow - Ethnology - 1888 - 166 pages
...unmolested. They * Knox (1. c., pp. 61, 62) says of them: — "They have no towns nor houses, only live by the waters under a tree, with some boughs...may hear by their rustling and trampling upon them." He saw such places on his flight from an almost twenty years- imprisonment. f Sir B. Tennent, 1. c.,... | |
| Robert Knox - Ceyton - 1911 - 590 pages
...few, which are near Inhabitants, have commerce with other people. They have no Towns nor Houses, only live by the waters under a Tree, with some boughs...the Woods, but God be praised the Vaddahs were gone. Some of the tamer sort of these men are in a kind of Subjection to the King. For if they can be found,... | |
| George van Driem - Austronesian languages - 2001 - 496 pages
...few, which are near Inhabitants, have commerce with other people. They have no Towns nor Houses, only live by the waters under a Tree, with some boughs...the Woods, but God be praised the Vaddahs were gone. Some of the tamer sort of these men are in a kind of Subjection to the King. For if they can be found,... | |
| R. Rajpal Kumar De Silva - Travel - 1988 - 512 pages
...Wt/tti Cui.niLir From Ano.v, 1692 From A/IOA, 1681 other people. They have no Towns nor Houses, only live by the waters under a Tree, with some boughs...them, to give notice when any wild Beasts come near. Some of the tamer sort of these men are in a kind of Subjection to the King ...they will acknowledg... | |
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