| James Orton - 1870 - 358 pagina’s
...feasting and hunting. Their weapons are blow-guns and wooden spears ; our guns they call by a word which signifies "thunder and lightning." Laying up for the...purposes in the form of snuff." There is no bread on the ISiapo ; the nearest ap* " The Napo (Herndon was told) is very full of sand-banks, and twenty days... | |
| James Orton - 1870 - 372 pagina’s
...Prescott, quoting Garcilasso) differ from every other Indian nation to whom tobacco was known by nsing it only for medicinal purposes in the form of snuff."...overboard and drag the canoes !" — Report, p. 229. t The chief difficulty throughout the Upper Amazon' is in getting the Indians to concentrate along... | |
| James Orton - 1875 - 672 pagina’s
...feasting and hunting. Their weapons are blow-guns and wooden spears ; our guns they call by a word which signifies "thunder and lightning." Laying up for the...nearest ap* " The Napo (Herndon was told) is very Ml of sand-banks, and twenty days from its mouth (or near the confluence of the Curaray) the men have... | |
| Louis Silberberg - 1887 - 104 pagina’s
...civilised of all the American nations subjugated by the ancient Spanish Conquistadores, differedfrom every other Indian nation to whom tobacco was known...only for medicinal purposes, in the form of snuff; and in this form it entered into royal and noble favour immediately upon its introduction into Europe,... | |
| Joseph D. McGuire - 1899 - 324 pagina’s
...Tobacco was among the products of Pern, yet the Peruvians differed from every other nation to whom it was known, by using it only for medicinal purposes in the form of snuff."5 The Inca Garcillasco de la Vega does not appear to refer to smoking, but only to the using... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - 1900 - 390 pagina’s
...products of this elevated region. Yet the Peruvians differed from every other Indian nation to whom it was known, by using it only for medicinal purposes in the form of snuff." They may have found a substitute for its narcotic qualities in the coca (Erythroxylum Peruvianum),... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - 1900 - 394 pagina’s
...products of this elevated region. Yet the Peruvians differed from every other Indian nation to whom it was known, by using it only for medicinal purposes in the form of snuff.** They may have found a substitute for its narcotic qualities in the coca (Erythroxylum Perumanum), or... | |
| William Hickling Prescott - 1904 - 382 pagina’s
...products of this elevated region. Yet the Peruvians differed from every other Indian nation to whom it was known, by using it only for medicinal purposes, in the form of snuff.30 They may have found a substitute for its narcotic qualities in the coca (Eryihroxylum Peruvianum)... | |
| Irving P. Fox - 1908 - 726 pagina’s
...products of this elevated region Yet the Peruvians differed from every other Indian nation to whom it was known by using it only for medicinal purposes in the form of snuff. They have found a substitute for its narcotic qualities in the coca l^rythroxyluni Peruvianum,) or... | |
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