 | 1865 - 544 Seiten
...canoes may be required ; therefore a neighbouring tribe, to protect themselves from his incursions, have built their huts upon tall poles, about a mile distant from the shore. These villages at once suggest the origin of the ancient lake dwellings of Switzerland. The Dahoman... | |
 | 1868 - 602 Seiten
...from Dahome and established themselves in a lagoon marked in our charts as the Denham Waters : — 1 The Dahoman king is sworn never to lead his army where...though said to be ferocious, they are civil enough to strangers. In June, 1863, 1 moored my little canoe under one of their huts, and I well remember the... | |
 | 1868 - 978 Seiten
...and established themselves in a lagoon marked in our charts as the Deuham waters : — ' The Dahomtm king is sworn never to lead his army where canoes...though said to be ferocious, they are civil enough to strangers. In June, 1863, 1 moored my little canoe under one of their huts, and I well remember the... | |
 | 1868 - 600 Seiten
...charts as the Denham Waters : — ' The Dahoman king is sworn never to lead his army where canoes may bo required ; these Iso, therefore, have built their...though said to be ferocious, they are civil enough to strangers. In June, 1863, 1 moored my little canoe under one of their huts, and I well remember the... | |
 | Anonymous - 1868 - 602 Seiten
...from Dahome and established themselves in a lagoon marked in our charts as the Denham Waters : — ' The Dahoman king is sworn never to lead his army where...from the shore. Their villages at once suggest the Frasian lake dwellings of Herodotus, and the crannoges of Ireland and the Swiss waters. The people... | |
 | Anthropological Society of London - 1865 - 614 Seiten
...cannot help thinking that Ossue (p. 51) or Assue, the name of a Caboceer, is connected with Iso or 'So. This is a tribe which during some forgotten war fled...though said to be ferocious, they are civil enough to strangers. In June 1863, I moored my little canoe under one of their huts, and I well remember the... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton, Norman Mosley Penzer - 1924 - 248 Seiten
...cannot help thinking that Ossue (p. 51) or Assue, the name of a Caboceer, is connected with Iso or 'So. This is a tribe which during some forgotten war fled...though said to be ferocious, they are civil enough to strangers. In June, 1863, I moored my little canoe under one of their huts, and I well remember the... | |
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The Dahoman king is sworn never to lead his army where canoes may be required ; these Iso, therefore, have built their huts upon tall poles, about a mile distant from the shore. Their villages at once suggest the Prasian lake dwellings of Herodotus, and... 