 There courtiers of high dignity stepped forward to greet me, dressed in the most scrupulously neat fashions. Men, women, bulls, dogs, and goats, were led about by strings ; cocks and hens were carried in men's arms; and little pages, with...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 81864Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1869 - 636 pages
...the most scrupulously neat fashions. Men, women, bulls, dogs, and goats were led about by strings, cocks and hens were carried in men's arms ; and little pages, with rope turbans, rushed about, conveying messages, as if their lives depended on their swiftness, every... | |
 | John Hanning Speke - Africa, East - 1863 - 758 pages
...the most scrupulously neat fashions. Men, women, bulls, dogs, and goats, were led about by strings ; cocks and hens were carried in men's arms; and little...depended on their swiftness, every one holding his skin -cloak tightly round him lest his naked legs might by accident be shown. This, then, was the ante-reception... | |
 | England - 1864 - 820 pages
...the most scrupulously neat fashions. Hen, women, bulls, dogs, and goats, were led about by strings ; cocks and hens were carried in men's arms ; and little pages, with горе-turbans, rushed about, conveying messages, as if theif lives depended on their swiftness,... | |
 | Nile river - Explorers - 1872 - 270 pages
...about by strings ; cocks and hens were carried in men's arms; and little boy pages in rope turbans rushed about conveying messages as if their lives depended on their swiftness, every one holding his skin cloak the great &\ English pc'j; lish possess?,. When IV. \vcrn pn.d'o' tried to d-'-i • dissuade... | |
 | Charles H. Jones - Africa - 1875 - 582 pages
...the most scrupulously neat fashions. Men, women, bulls, dogs, and goats were led about by strings; cocks and hens were carried in men's arms ; and little pages, with rope turbans, rushed about, conveying messages, as if their lives depended on their * 1 block-tin box,... | |
 | william francis ainsworth - 1876 - 732 pages
...the most scrupulously neat fashion. Men, women, bulls, dogs, and goats were led about by strings ; cocks and hens were carried in men's arms; and little pages, with rope turbans, rushed about conveying messages, as if their lives depended (as they most probably did)... | |
 | Africa, Central - 1878 - 496 pages
...the most scrupulously neat fashions. Men, women, bulls, dogs, and goats were led about by strings ; cocks and hens were carried in men's arms ; and little pages, with rope turbans, rushed about, conveying messages, as if their lives depended on their swiftness, every... | |
 | George Tiffany Day - Africa, East - 1880 - 416 pages
...about by strings ; cocks and hens were carried in men's arms ; and little boy pages in rope turbans, rushed about, conveying messages as if their lives...depended on their swiftness, every one holding his skin cloak tightly around him lest his naked legs might by accident be seen." Instead of being at once... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston, Charles Rathbone Low - Africa - 1890 - 548 pages
...about by strings, cocks and hens were carried in men's arms, and little page-boys, with rope turbans, rushed about, conveying messages, as if their lives depended on their swiftness, everyone holding his skin cloak tightly round him, lest his naked legs should by accident be . shown,... | |
 | Friedrich Ratzel - Anthropology - 1898 - 672 pages
...the most scrupulously neat fashions. Men, women, bulls, dogs, and goats were led about by strings ; cocks and hens were carried in men's arms, and little...him, lest his naked legs might by accident be shown." Dancing musicians then led the procession into the hall where the king sat on his throne, surrounded... | |
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