 The slaves of Brazil are a very strong and robust class of men, and of temperate habits. Their food consists of rice, fruits, and bread of coarse flour, and from the farrenia root. They endure great hardships, and carry enormous burdens on their heads,...  General Report of the Commissioner - Página 421898Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1831
...various places along the coast ; but this lake is a large extent of water, running parallel with, and at a distance of, from a quarter of a mile to a mile or two from the sea, extending a hundred and fifty miles from the River Volta to the Lagos. Its breadth... | |
 | John Smith (of Malton.) - 1845 - 456 páginas
...and from the farrenia root. They endure great hardships, and carry enormous burdens on their heads, a distance of from a quarter of a mile to a mile without resting. It is a common tiling to see them in droves or companies, moving on at a brisk trot,... | |
 | Sylvester Graham - 1849 - 302 páginas
...and from the farrenia root. They endure great hardships, and carry enormous burdens on their heads, a distance of from a quarter of a mile to a mile, without resting. It is a common thing to see them in droves or companies, moving on at a brisk trot,... | |
 | John Smith (of Malton.) - 1854 - 334 páginas
...flour, and from the farrenia root. They endure great hadships, and carry enormous burdens on their heads a distance of from a quarter of a mile to a mile, without resting. It is a common thing to see them in droves or companies, moving on at a brisk trot,... | |
 | Sylvester Graham - 1854 - 750 páginas
...and from the farrenia root. They endure great hardships, and carry enormous burdens on their heads, a distance of from a quarter of a mile to a mile, without resting. It is a common thing to see them in droves or companies, moving on at a brisk trot,... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - 1861 - 248 páginas
...canon, the quartz has to be carried down to them from the veins which are near the tops of the hills, a distance of from a quarter of a mile to a mile and a quarter. Some of this work is done by wagons, but two of the mills have cars and wooden railroads,... | |
 | 1877 - 506 páginas
...shore, up to their waists in water, after which it has all to be carried again, still on their backs, a distance of from a, quarter of a mile to a mile, and sometimes more. The land has now to bo delved, generally with the cas-chrom, or crooked spade. This... | |
 | John Smith (of Malton.) - 1880 - 122 páginas
...and from the farrenia root. They endure great hardships, and carry enormous burdens on their heads a distance of from a quarter of a mile to a mile without resting. It is a common thing to see them in droves or companies, moving on at a brisk trot,... | |
 | 1881 - 250 páginas
...1880, he had treated seven cases, all quotidian, residing "on the west side of the Connecticut River, at a distance of from a quarter of a mile to a mile." After this date the number of cases greatly increased. Dr. C. Seymour wrote as follows, Sept. 27, 1880... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1885 - 592 páginas
...experimented by means of a gun and a receiving-trumpet, and had obtained echoes from passing vessels at a distance of from a quarter of a mile to a mile, according to their size. The other showed the results of some experiments he had made on the audition... | |
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