 | Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1848 - 190 pàgines
...sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hairline, without any hook, jerk out little fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a...is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi. A small party of these men one morning set out, and the other Indians said that they were going four... | |
 | 1852 - 784 pàgines
...or sit patiently in their canoes, and with baited hair-line without ¡my hook jerk out little fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a...whale discovered, it is a feast : and such miserable foui! is assisted by a few tasteless berrio* and fungi." — Darwin's Voyage, p. 212.' ' • I ! l,... | |
 | Stephen Henry Ward - 1853 - 432 pàgines
...sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair line without any hook, jerk out little fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a...is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi. They often suffer from famine, — and I heard Mr. Low, a sealing master, intimately acquainted with... | |
 | 1861 - 396 pàgines
...collect sea-eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair-line jerk out small fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale is discovered, they are feasts. Such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi."... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 338 pàgines
...collect sea-eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair-line jerk out small fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale is discovered, they are feasts. Such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi."... | |
 | John Timbs - 1864 - 328 pàgines
...collect sea-eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair-line jerk out small fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale is discovered, they are feasts. Such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi."... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 560 pàgines
...small fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcase of a putrid whale discovered, it is a feast : such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless...consequence, cannibalism accompanied by parricide.'' In this latter respect, however, the advantage appears to be all on the side of the ancients, whom... | |
 | 1865 - 592 pàgines
...collect sea eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair line, jerk out small fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a putrid whale discovered, it is a feast ; such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi." (Darwin's Journal, p. 234,... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1869 - 500 pàgines
...sit patiently in their boats, and with a baited hair-line, without any hook, jerk out little fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a...miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries, chiefly of a dwarf arbutus, or by a globular bright yellow fungus ( Cyttaria Darwini), which grows... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 776 pàgines
...sit patiently in their boats, and with a baited hair-line, without any hook, jerk out little fish. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a...miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries, chiefly of a dwarf arbutus, or by a globular bright yellow fungus (Cyttaria Darœini), which grows... | |
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Whenever it is low water, winter or summer, night or day, they must rise to pick shell-fish from the rocks; and the women either dive to collect sea-eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair-line without any hook, jerk out little... 
