Life in Abyssinia: Being Notes Collected During Three Years' Residence and Travels in that CountryJ. Murray, 1868 - 446 oldal |
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244. oldal - The men seldom tattoo more than one ornament on the upper part of the arm, near the shoulder, while the women cover nearly the whole of their bodies with stars, lines, and crosses, often rather tastefully arranged. I may well say nearly the whole of their persons, for they mark the neck, shoulders, breasts, and arms, down to the fingers, which are enriched with lines, to imitate rings, nearly to the nails. The feet, ankles, and calves of the legs are similarly adorned, and even the gums are by some...
147. oldal - When getting sleepy, you return your rifle between your legs, roll over, and go to sleep. Some people may think this is a queer place for a rifle ; but, on the contrary, it is the position of all others where utility and comfort are most combined. The butt rests on the arm, and serves as a pillow for the head ; the muzzle points between the knees, and the arms encircle the lock and breech, so that you have a smooth pillow, and are always prepared to start up armed at a moment's notice.
202. oldal - I should beg his pardon indeed for calling him an assassin, as he is not so merciful as to aim at the life, but, on the contrary, to keep the beast alive till he be totally eaten up.
21. oldal - Turkish shirts, three pairs of drawers, one suit of Turkish clothes for best occasions, a pair of sandals, and a red cap. " From the day I left Suez (March 25, 1843), till about the same time in the year 1849, I never wore any article of European dress, nor indeed ever slept on a bed of any sort — not even a mattress...
295. oldal - He hat been anointed ; and that He himself is the unction. This party is chiefly in Tigre' — the most exasperated one. Their doctrine was that of the last Coptic Abuna. — The second opinion is, that when it is said that Jesus Christ was anointed with the Holy Spirit, it is signified merely that the Holy Spirit accomplished the union of the Godhead with the human nature in the person of Christ. This party is principally to be found in the provinces of Godjam and Lasta. — The third opinion, predominating...
295. oldal - The Christians of Abyssinia are at present divided into three parties, so inimical to each other, that they curse one another, and will no longer partake of the Sacrament together. It is one single point of theology that disunites them ; but I have so much enlarged upon it in my Journal, that I need only mention it here : it is the unceasing dispute concerning the unction of Jesus Christ.
61. oldal - I found nothing but a large straggling village of huts, some flat-roofed, but mostly thatched with straw, and the walls of all of them built of rough stones, laid together with mud, in the rudest possible manner. Being wet, moreover, with the rain, the place presented the most miserably dirty appearance.
201. oldal - Almost before the death-struggle is over, persons are ready to flay the carcase, and pieees of the raw meat are cut off, and served up before this operation is completed. In fact, as each part presents itself, it is cut off and eaten while yet warm and quivering. In this state it is considered, and justly so, to be very superior in taste to what it is when cold. Raw meat, if kept a little time, gets tough ; whereas, if eaten fresh and warm, it is far tenderer than the most tender joint that has been...
99. oldal - You may see them quarrelling, making love, mothers taking care of their children, combing their hair, nursing and suckling them ; and the passions— jealousy, anger, love— as fully and distinctly marked as in men. They have a language as distinct to them as ours is ; and their teamen are as noisy and fond of disputation as any fish-fag in Billingsgate.
245. oldal - ... which were to be of equal length. Her design being thus completed, she worked away on it with her pin, which she dug in as far as the thin part would enter, keeping the supply of blacking sufficient, and going over the same ground repeatedly to ensure regularity and unity in the lines. "With some persons the first effect of this tattooing is to produce a considerable amount of fever from the irritation caused by the punctures, especially so with the ladies, from the extent of surface thus rendered...