 | Francis Galton - 1853 - 352 pages
...of one, is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know. When bartering is going on, each sheep must be paid...Damara to take two sheep and give him four sticks. I have done so, and seen a man first put two of the sticks apart and take a sight over them at one... | |
 | 1855 - 632 pages
...understood by cultivators than formerly ; being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know. When bartering is going on, each sheep must be paid...for separately. Thus, suppose two sticks of tobacco (a stick is about an ounce) to be the rate of exchange for one sheep, it would sorely nuzzle a Damara... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1864 - 506 pages
...loss of one is not hy the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know. When bartering is going on each sheep must be paid...Damara to take two sheep and give him four sticks. I have done so and seen a man first put two of the sticks apart and take a sight over them at one of... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1865 - 466 pages
...losj of one is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know. "When bartering is going on each sheep must be paid...separately. Thus, suppose two sticks of tobacco to be the rato of exchange for one sheep, it would sorely puzzle a Damara to take two sheep and givc him four... | |
 | John George Wood - 1868 - 798 pages
...of one is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know. " When bartering is going on, each sheep must be paid...Damara to take two sheep and give him four sticks. I have done so, and seen a man first put two of the sticks apart, and take a sight over them at one... | |
 | John George Wood - 1868 - 802 pages
...one is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence ui .» face they know. " When bartering is going on, each sheep must be paid...the rate of exchange for one sheep, it would sorely puzzl« i Damara to take two sheep and give him four sticks. I have done so, and seen a man fir?! put... | |
 | 1871 - 442 pages
...the Dammaras find in the simplest arithmetical calculations is thus admirably set forth by Galton : " When bartering is going on, each sheep must be paid...of exchange for one sheep, it would sorely puzzle a Dammara to take two sheep and give him four sticks. I have done so, and seen a man put two of the sticks... | |
 | 1893 - 902 pages
...loss of one is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know. When bartering is going on each sheep must be paid...Damara to take two sheep and give him four sticks. I have done so, and seen a man put two of the sticks apart, and take a sight over them at one of the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1873 - 512 pages
...loss of one is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know. When bartering is going on, each sheep must be paid...of exchange for one sheep, it would sorely puzzle a Dammara to take two sheep and give him four sticks. I have done so, and seen a man put two of the sticks... | |
 | james r - 1873 - 520 pages
...loss of one is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know. When bartering is going on, each sheep must be paid...of exchange for one sheep, it would sorely puzzle a Dammara to take two sheep ad give him four sticks. I have done so, and seen a man put two of the sticks... | |
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Yet they seldom lose oxen : the way in which they discover the loss of one, is not by the number of the herd being diminished, but by the absence of a face they know. When bartering is going on, each sheep must be paid for separately. Thus, suppose two... 
