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Life in Brazil; Or, A Journal of a Visit to the Land of the Cocoa and the Palm Thomas Ewbank Volledige weergave - 1856 |
Life in Brazil; Or, A Journal of a Visit to the Land of the Cocoa and the Palm Thomas Ewbank Volledige weergave - 1856 |
Life in Brazil; Or, A Journal of a Visit to the Land of the Cocoa and the Palm Thomas Ewbank Volledige weergave - 1856 |
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Pagina 410 - Vienna, there are/our of these vessels, composed of porphyry, basalt, and granite, representing the four species, viz., the llama, alpaca, huanaco, and vicuna These antiquities are exceedingly scarce, and when I was in Peru I was unable to obtain any of them. How the ancient Peruvians, without the aid of iron tools, were able to carve stone so beautifully, is inconceivable.
Pagina 409 - It is rudely formed, ill burnt, and the ornamental work immeasurably worse done than what the old potters turned out. There were a few other small matters intended for the preceding group of figures, but which have been accidentally omitted. One was a whistle formed in the body of a small bird of baked clay. The relic was very old, and the head missing. The tone was shrill and clear, and was pleasantly modified by partially or wholly closing with the finger an opening in the breast.
Pagina 410 - They also prepared the leaves of the coco and other plants for medical purposes by grinding ; hence the demand for small .mortars. An extract from Von Tschudi will add to the interest of these relics : "Under the dynasty of the Incas, when any useful plant and animal was an object of veneration, the...
Pagina 80 - Vegetables, flowers, fruits, edible roots, fowls, eggs, and every rural product; cakes, pies, rusks, doces, confectionery, " heavenly bacon," etc., pass your windows continually. Your cook wants a skillet, and, hark ! the signal of a pedestrian copper-smith is heard; his bell is a stew-pan, and the clapper a hammer. A water-pot is shattered; in half an hour a moringuemerchant approaches.
Pagina 355 - Propositions like those emitted from the Chair of Truth by a priest of the character of M. Bedini are eminently censurable." The bishop is invoked to act promptly in the matter, as one that threatens to compromise the interests of Brazil.
Pagina 248 - Vendues of these things are held here daily, and once or twice a week another variety of merchandise is offered. This was the case to-day — an assorted invoice of colored goods, arranged on benches behind the railing. The catalogue contained eighty-nine lots, and each lot had a corresponding number pinned to it, that purchasers, on running over the list, might compare the articles with their description. These goods were living beings. Every lot was a man or woman, a boy or girl. There were fifty-three...
Pagina 250 - ... woman — a field-hand. She was stout, and seemed older than reported in the catalogue. Dressed as sparely and plainly as the men, she too was examined, and told to walk to and fro. When near the door, a bidder interrogated her, but on what 1 could not comprehend.
Pagina 414 - ... on which a fox or gamba is mounted, with a prey or young one in its mouth. The surface of the haft is dented, to imitate a cord, or something like the plaited covering of a whip handle. In this particular the engraving does not do it justice.
Pagina 423 - ... 2. A fish-hook of bronze about the size of a mackerel hook, half an inch across the bend, the short end 1£ inches, and the other end longer. The last had been attached to a slip of bone or wood: the lashing was remaining round both. On dissolving the oxide by an acid, the metallic portion remaining was found to be one eighth of an inch thick at the bend, and to taper thence to both ends. If there had been a barb at one and a notch or loop at the other, they had been eaten away. This hook is...
Pagina 408 - ... red, the upper half is ornamented with black, white, greenish, and purple lines (not shown in the figure). Two cobras, or double-headed snakes, are on each side, and below a white band. Two crosses are cut into the material. The vase e is only four and a half inches deep, and three across the lips. It is ornamented all round, but less on the side represented. It has three features characteristic of vessels carried about the person: loops to sling it by, a conical bottom, and a stud projecting...