| Thomas Smith - Civilization - 1804 - 304 pages
...conceive any thing more rude than the habitations of these people. The hut of the woodman is constructed of the bark of a single tree, bent in the middle, and placed on its two ends on the ground, affording shelter to only one miserable tenant. But on the coast the huts are made of... | |
| Thomas Smith - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1806 - 304 pages
...conceive any thing more rude than the habitations of these people. The hut of the woodman is constructed of the bark of a single tree, bent in the middle., and placed on its two ends on the ground, affording shelter to only one miserable tenant. But on the coast the huts are made of... | |
| G. Paterson - Aboriginal Australians - 1811 - 648 pages
...prominent jaws. Their habitations are as rude as imagination can conceive. The hut of the woodman is made of the bark of a single tree, bent in the middle, and placed on its two ends on the ground, affording shelter to only one miserable tenant. These they never carry about with them.... | |
| R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 592 pages
...prominent jaws. Their habitations are as rude as imagination can conceive. The hut of the woodman is made of the bark of a single tree, bent in the middle, and placed on its two ends on the ground, affording shelter to only one miserable tenant. These they never carry about with them.... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - Geography - 1823 - 512 pages
...cartilage of the nose. Their habitations are as rude as can be conceived. The hut of the woodsman is made of the bark of a single tree, bent in the middle, and placed on its two ends on the ground, affording shelter to only one miserable tenant. On the sea coast, the huts are larger,... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - Civilization - 1836 - 588 pages
...beasts of the forests. Their habitations are of the rudest construction. The hut of the woodman is made of the bark of a single tree, bent in the middle, and placed on its two ends upon the ground, affording shelter only to one miserable tenant. On the sea coast, the huts are larger,... | |
| Hugh Murray - Geography - 1837 - 640 pages
...spontaneously, pursuing and laying snares for the squirrel and opossum, and even devouring worms and grubs tliat are found in the trunks of trees. Their huts are of...tenant. At other times, two or three pieces of bark, put together in the form of an oven, afford hovels, into which six or eight persons may creep. But... | |
| Hugh Murray - Geography - 1837 - 644 pages
...berries which grow spontaneously, pursuing and laying snares for the squirrel and opossum, and even devouring worms and grubs that are found in the trunks...on its two ends in the ground, affording shelter to «nly one miserable tenant. At other times, two or three pieces of bark, put together in the form of... | |
| 1837 - 538 pages
...huts of the New Hollanders, the comparison will, as I have said, not hold good. They are made with the bark of a single tree, bent in the middle, and placed with its two ends on the ground. When one of the natives has taken up his abode in a hut of this kind... | |
| 1815 - 560 pages
...winding their fishing-lines over it. They have no fixed habitation ; their temporary hovels consist each of the bark of a single tree, bent in the middle, and just large enough to receive one person : some found on the coast were larger, in the shape of a bee-hive,... | |
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