Philip Vandeleur's Victory

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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1879 - Всего страниц: 260
 

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Стр. 158 - ... for the sake of head-hunting. They act precisely on the same im-pulses as other wild men: war arises from passion or interest; peace from defeat or fear. As friends, they are faithful, just, and honest; as enemies, bloodthirsty and cunning, patient on the war-path, and enduring fatigue, hunger, and want of sleep, with cheerfulness and resolution. As woodmen they are remarkably acute; and on all their ex-cursions carry with them a number of ranjows, which, when they retreat, they stick in behind...
Стр. 158 - In short, there is nothing new in their feelings, or in their mode of shewing them ; no trait remarkable for cruelty ; no head-hunting for the sake of head-hunting. They act precisely on the same impulses as other wild men : war arises from passion or interest ; peace from defeat or fear. As friends, they are faithful, just, and honest ; as enemies, bloodthirsty and cunning, patient on the war-path, and enduring fatigue, hunger, and want of sleep, with cheerfulness and resolution.

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