 | 1830 - 562 페이지
...extraordinary practices, I was informed that formerly it was usual for the people to eat their parents when too old for work. The old people selected the horizontal...practice took place during the season of limes, when salt arid pepper were plenty ; and as soon as the victims became fatigued, and could hold on no longer,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1830 - 564 페이지
...extraordinary practices, I was informed that formerly it was usual for the people to eat their parents when too old for work. The old people selected the horizontal...practice took place during the season of limes, when when salt and pepper were plenty ; and as soon as the victims becamefatigued, and could hold on no... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1830 - 574 페이지
...extraordinary practices, I was informed that formerly it was usual for the people to eat their parents when too old for work. The old people selected the horizontal...practice took place during the season of limes, when when salt and pepper were plenty j and as soon as the victims became fatigued, and could hold on no... | |
 | 1830 - 436 페이지
...extraordinary practices, I was informed that formerly it was usual for the people to eat their parents when too old for work. The old people selected the horizontal...round them, crying out, ' When the fruit is ripe, then Ц will fall.' This practice took place during the season of limes, when salt and pepper were plenty... | |
 | James Bell - 1831 - 778 페이지
...extraordinary practices, I was told that formerly it was usual for the people to eat their parents when they were too old for work. The old people selected the...circle, danced round them, crying out, ' When the frait is ripe, then it will fall !' This practice took place during the season of limes, when salt... | |
 | James Bell - 1832 - 910 페이지
...extraordinary practices, I was told that formerly it was usual for the people to eat their parents when they were too old for work. The old people selected the...during the season of limes, when salt and pepper were plentiful ; and as soon as the victim* became fatigued and could hold on no longer, they fell down,... | |
 | Lady Sophia Raffles - 1835 - 492 페이지
...extraordinary practices, I was informed that formerly it was usual for the people to eat their parents when too old for work. The old people selected the horizontal branch of a tree, and quickly suspended themselves by their hands, while their children and neighbours, forming a circle,... | |
 | James Richardson Logan - 1848 - 936 페이지
...old relatives, which agrees perfectly with the account given by Sir S. Raffles of the Battas ; " I was informed, says he, in his memoirs, that formerly...neighbours forming a circle danced round them, crying out taken the fruit is ripe, then it will fall. This practice took place during the season of limes, when... | |
 | 1868 - 428 페이지
...— " I was informed that formerly it was usual for the people to eat their parents when too old to work. The old people selected the horizontal branch...neighbours, forming a circle, danced round them crying ' When the fruit is ripe, then it will fall.' The practice took place during the season of limes, when... | |
 | Edward Balfour - 1871 - 1174 페이지
...the. Gangaridea Greek writers with whom formerly it was usual for the people to eat their parents when too old for work- The old people selected the horizontal...and neighbours forming a circle, danced round them crving out ' when the fruit is ripe, then it will fall.' This practice took place during the season... | |
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I was informed that formerly it was usual for the people to eat their parents when too old for work. The old people selected the horizontal branch of a tree, and quietly suspended themselves by their hands, while their children and neighbours, forming... 
