| Hakluyt Society - 1847 - 126 páginas
...to sleep under rocks, and live on wild honey and roots. They oc-casionally trade with the peasantry, who place cotton and grain on some stone, and the...creatures, as soon as the strangers are out of sight, take these and put honey in their place. But they will let no one come near them. (Peru and India, p. 404.)... | |
| Hakluyt Society - 1847 - 126 páginas
...to sleep under rocks, and live on wild honey and roots. They occasionally trade with the peasantry, who place cotton and grain on some stone, and the...creatures, as soon as the strangers are out of sight, take these and put honey in their place. But they will let no one come near them. (Peru and India, p. 404.)... | |
| Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1880 - 592 páginas
...rocks, and live on wild honey and roots. The women run with them, like wild goats, their children slung on their hips. The Poliars occasionally trade with...which grows in large coarse tufts, like the Stipa yehu in Peru ; and it is not until the young tender shoots come out that it affords good pasture for... | |
| Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1880 - 588 páginas
...rocks, and live on wild honey and roots. The women run with them, like wild goats, their children slung on their hips. The Poliars occasionally trade with...them. The undulating hills and valleys of the interior * Yet I missed the Berberis Mahonia, which in the Nilgiris is not found beyond the limits of the south'west... | |
| Sir Philip James Hamilton Grierson - 1903 - 130 páginas
...Madura, Markham 4 says that they " occasionally trade with the country people, who place cotton or grain on some stone, and the wild •creatures, as...place, but they will allow no one to come near them." Again, Humboldt,5 in speaking 1 Ribeyro, " Histoire de l'isle de Ceylon," Amsterdam, 1701, p. 179.... | |
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