 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 852 páginas
...women, winter and summer, either dive to collect sea-eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes fishing. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a...miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi. Nor are they exempt from famine, and as a consequence, cannibalism, accompanied by parricide."... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1846 - 716 páginas
...shell-fish from the rocks ; and tbe women either dive to collect seaeggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hair-line, without any hook, jerk...miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi. They often suffer from fkmine: I heard Mr. Low, a sealing-master, intimately acquainted... | |
 | Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1848 - 190 páginas
...shell-fish from the rocks; and the women either dive to collect sea-eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with a baited hairline, without any hook, jerk...miserable food 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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1850 - 928 páginas
...women, winter and summer, either dive to collect sea-eggs, or sit patiently in their canoes fishing. If a seal is killed, or the floating carcass of a...feast, and such miserable food is assisted by a few tast*]^ berries and fungi. Nor are they exempt from famine, and as a consequence, cannibalism, accompanied... | |
 | 1852 - 784 páginas
...either dive to collect seaeggs, or sit patiently in their canoes, and with baited hair-line without ¡my hook jerk out little fish. If a seal is killed, or...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 páginas
...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 fish. If a seal...miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi. They often suffer from famine, — and I heard Mr. Low, a sealing master, intimately acquainted... | |
 | 1861 - 396 páginas
...dive to 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 páginas
...dive to 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 páginas
...dive to 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."... | |
 | 1865 - 592 páginas
...to 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,... | |
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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... 
