 | George Francis Lyon - 1821 - 444 pagina’s
...themselves in. such a dirty state; but to all our inquiries we obtained nearly the same answers: " God never intended that man should injure his health,...Tuarick, who always falls sick after much washing." There are some, however, who do wash, and ridicule the dirty ones; but these are comparatively few.... | |
 | George Francis Lyon - 1821 - 440 pagina’s
...themselves in such a dirty state; but to all our inquiries we obtained nearly the same answers : " God never intended that man should injure his health,...does not agree with the skin of a Tuarick, who always fells sick after much washing." There are some, however, who do wash, and ridicule the dirty ones ;... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - 376 pagina’s
...we obtained nearly * It is the Shellu/i or Siwayan. See page 07 of this volume. the same answers : ' God never intended that man should injure his health,...avoid it: water having been given to man to drink and to cook with, it does not agree with the skin of a Tuarick, who always falls sick after much washing.'*... | |
 | 1831 - 410 pagina’s
...discover the reason why they kept themselves in such a dirty state; but to all our inquiries we obtained the same answer, ' God never intended that man should...in the Great Desert, as the proper associate of his fellow savages." If a person who is obliged to stay at home during the summer, should regularly take... | |
 | Michael MacMillan - 1890 - 208 pagina’s
...placed between their eyes. 1 his people had the most decided aversion to washing. " God," they said, " never intended that man should injure his health,...and cook with, it does not agree with the skin of a Tuaric who always falls sick after much washing." Yet, in spite of this and in spite of the fact that... | |
 | 1843 - 204 pagina’s
...discover the reason why they kept themselves in such a dirty state ; but to all our inquiries we obtained the same answer, ' God never intended that man should...and cook with ; it does not agree with the skin of a Taurick, who always falls sick after much washing.' It were most earnestly to be wished that an approximation... | |
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... purifications, which require that a man should wash in a particular way before his prayers, they avoid water, and make use of sand. Many attempts were made by us to discover the reason why they kept themselves in. such a dirty state; but to all our... 