Chapters from a Guianese Log-book, Or, The Folk-lore and Scenes of Sea-coast and River Life in British Guiana: Comprising Sketches of Indian, Boviander, and Negro Life, Habits, Customs, and Legendary Tales, with Historic Notes, Political and NaturalRoyal Gazette, 1881 - 360 pages |
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Chapters from a Guianese Log-Book, Or, the Folk-Lore and Scenes of Sea-Coast ... Anonymous Aucun aperçu disponible - 2017 |
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Acawoio acuri Anansie animals Anthony Daniel Anua-naitu Arawak arrow banab bank bark beautiful Berbice Berbice river birds bite blood boat body Bovianders British Guiana bush bush cow bush-rope calabash called camudi captain child Christian church colony colour corial creek creole Cumaka Curiebrong Cychla dead death decoction Demerara river Essequibo eumaraca evil eyes fall father feet fish forest fruit Gaik Georgetown ground habits hammock head heard hill Hittia hunting husband inches Indians Kanaima labba labourers land leaves live Macona-ura Macusi Mahaica Malali miles mission missionary mora morning mother neighbourhood nest night obeah paddle paiwarri passed Piai piaiman Pimelodus plantains poison Potaro punt rock Roraima sand savanna season seen settlement slaves snake spirit sugar estates tail tiger timber told tree tribe village wallaba wife wild wild hog woman women wood woodcutter woodskin young
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Page 52 - Wi' mair o' horrible and awfu', Which ev"n to name wad be unlawfu'. As Tammie glowr'd, amaz'd, and curious, The mirth and fun grew fast and furious : The piper loud and louder blew ; The dancers quick and quicker flew ; They reel'd, they set, they cross'd, they cleekit, Till ilka carlin swat and reekit, And coost her duddies to the wark, And linket at it in her sark ! Now Tam, O Tam ! had thae been queans, A' plump and strapping in their teens ; Their sarks, instead o...
Page 290 - If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death ; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
Page 150 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 152 - We figure to ourselves The thing we like, and then we build it up As chance will have it, on the rock or sand : For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.
Page 303 - Homa,1 and acknowledged the existence of a number of lesser deities, good and evil genii, the creation respectively of the great powers of light and darkness.* Their worship consisted chiefly in religious chaunts, analogous to the Vedic hymns of their Indian brethren, wherewith they hoped to gain the...
Page 249 - clings to the father, gazes upon him, follows him wherever he goes, and for the time being is as intimate and familiar with the father as he is with his own infant body with which the infant spirit is only recently associated. How, then, can the father go out to the forest or field to use an axe or cutlass, when the spirit of the child which follows him as a second shadow might be between the axe and the wood ? How climb a tree, if the infant spirit is also to essay the climbing, and fall, perhaps...
Page 108 - I have heard, That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Page 147 - Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Page 339 - The Sun, finding his fish-ponds too frequently robbed, set Yamuru, the waterlizard, to watch them. Yamuru, not being sufficiently vigilant and deprivations continuing, Alligator was appointed watchman. Alligator, the depredator, continued his old trade while employed as a watchman, and at last was detected by the Sun, who slashed him with a cutlass within an inch of his life, every cut forming a scale (Sect.
Page 249 - ... between the axe and the wood ? How climb a tree, if the infant spirit is also to essay the climbing, and fall, perhaps to the injury of the infant lying in the hammock ? How hunt, when the arrow might pierce the accompanying spirit of the child, which would be death to the little mortal at home ? . . . When the father wades through the water, the toddling spirit of the wife's infant must paddle over in a...