 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 396 pages
...tasteless berries and fungi. T hey often suffer from fhmine: I heard Mr. Low, a sealing-master, intimately acquainted with the natives of this country, give...seal. A small party of these men one morning set out, and the other Indians explained to him that they were going a four days' journey for food : on their... | |
 | Stephen Henry Ward - Medicine, Popular - 1853 - 432 pages
...berries and fungi. They often suffer from famine, — and I heard Mr. Low, a sealing master, intimately acquainted with the natives of this country, give...seal. A small party of these men one morning set out, and the other Indians explained to him, that they were going a four days' journey for food; on' their... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1876 - 586 pages
...few tasteless berries and They often suffer from famine: I heard Mr. Low, a sealingmaster intimately acquainted with the natives of this country, give...prevented the women from getting shell-fish on the rocks, am1 they could not go out in is the coast, that they can only move about in their wretcbei canoes.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1876 - 574 pages
...discovered, it is a feast ; and such miserable food is assisted by a few tasteless berries and fungi. their canoes to catch seal. A small party of these men one morning set out, and the other Indians explained to him, that they were going- a four days' journey for food : on their... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1889 - 462 pages
...tasteless berries and fungi. They often suffer from famine: I heard Mr. Low, a sealing-master intimately acquainted with the natives of this country, give...out in their canoes to catch seal. A small party of CHAP, x.] RELIGION OF THE FUEGIANS. 155 these men one morning set out, and the other Indians explained... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1889 - 628 pages
...tasteless berries and fungi. They often suffer from famine. I heard Mr. Low, a sealing-master intimately acquainted with the natives of this country, give...in great distress. A succession of gales prevented MISERABLE CONDITION OF THE NATIVES. 261 the women from getting shell-fish on the rocks, and they could... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition, (1831-1836) - 1890 - 646 pages
...tasteless berries and fungi. They often suffer from famine : I heard Mr. Low, a sealingmaster intimately acquainted with the natives of this country, give...shellfish on the rocks, and they could not go out in •16 their canoes to catch seal. A small party of these men one morning set out, and the other Indians... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 542 pages
...tasteless berries and fungi. They often suffer from famine : I heard Mr. Low, a sealingmaster intimately acquainted with the natives of this country, give...getting shell-fish on the rocks, and they could not po out in their canoes to catch seal. A small party of these men one morning set out, and the other... | |
 | Louis Wallis - Civilization - 1901 - 340 pages
...tasteless berries and fungi. They often suffer from famine: I heard Mr. Low, a sealing master intimately acquainted with the natives of this country, give...seal. A small party of these men one morning set out, and the other Indians explained to him that they were going on a four days' journey, for food ; on... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1908 - 542 pages
...tasteless berries and fungi. They often suffer from famine: I heard Mr. Low, a sealing-master intimately acquainted with the natives of this country, give...seal. A small party of these men one morning set out, and the other Indians explained to him, that they were going a four days' journey for food : on their... | |
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Low, a sealing-master intimately acquainted with the natives of this country, give a curious account of the state of a party of one hundred and fifty natives on the west coast, who were very thin and in great distress. A succession of gales prevented... 
