On my part, without disputing my own deformity, I paid them many compliments on African beauty. I praised the glossy jet of their skins, and the lovely depression of their noses; but they said that flattery, or (as they emphatically termed it) honey-mouth,... Travels in the Interior of Africa - 42. oldalszerző: Mungo Park - 1825 - 180 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| Mungo Park - 1807 - 594 oldal
...part, without disputing my own deformity, I paid them many compliments on African beauty. J praised the glossy jet of their skins, and the lovely depression...they said that flattery, or (as they emphatically termed it) boney-mouth, was not es^ teemed in Bondou. In return, however, for my company or my compliments... | |
| Mungo Park - 1813 - 374 oldal
...part, without disputing my own deformity, I paid them many compliments on African beauty. I praised the glossy jet of their skins, and the lovely depression...they said that flattery, or (as they emphatically termed it) honey-mouth, was not esteemed in Bondou. In return, however, for my company or my compliments... | |
| Mungo Park - 1816 - 576 oldal
...part, without disputing my own deformity, I paid them many compliments on African beauty. I praised the glossy jet of their skins, and the lovely depression...they said that flattery, or (as they emphatically termed it) honey-mouth, was not esteemed in Bondou. In return, however, for my company or my compliments... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1817 - 126 oldal
...part, without disputing my own deformity, I paid them many compliments on African beauty. I praised the glossy jet of their skins, and the lovely depression...they said that flattery, or (as they emphatically termed it) honey-mouth, was not esteemed in Bondou. In return, however, for my company or my compliments... | |
| R. P. Forster - 1818 - 508 oldal
...every day, until it had acquired its present unsightly conformation. Mr. Park, in return, gallantly complimented these African ladies on the glossy jet...presented him with ajar of honey and some fish, which they sent to his lodgings ; and he was ordered again to wait upon the king before sun-set. Mr, Park... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 782 oldal
...seraglio derided the whiteness of his skin and the prominence of his nose; and he complimented them oa the glossy jet of their skins, and the lovely depression of their noses. On the 24th he reached Joag, the frontier town of Kajaaga. The bouse of the judge in which he slept,... | |
| Lydia Maria Child - 1835 - 322 oldal
...conformation. Without disputing my own deformity, I paid them many compliments on African beauty. I praised the glossy jet of their skins, and the lovely depression of their noses ; but they told me that honeymouth was not esteemed in Bondu. In return, however, for my company, or my compliments,... | |
| Robert Huish - 1836 - 824 oldal
...part, without disputing his own deformity, he paid them many compliments on African beauty. He praised the glossy jet of their skins, and the lovely depression of their noses ; but they said, that flatter}-, or as they emphatically termed it, honey-mouth, was not esteemed in Bondou. The ladies,... | |
| Mungo Park - 1840 - 262 oldal
...part, without disputing my own deformity, I paid them many compliments on African beauty. I praised the glossy jet of their skins, and the lovely depression...their noses ; but they said that flattery (or, as they emphati. calty termed it, honey-mouth) was not esteemed in Bondou. In return, however, for my company... | |
| Mungo Park - 1840 - 270 oldal
...my own deformity, I paid them many compliments on African beauty. I praised the glossy jet of thei* skins, and the lovely depression of their noses ;...they said that flattery (or, as they emphatically termed it, honey-mouth) was not esteemed in Bondou. In return, however, for my company or compliments... | |
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