 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...  The Popular Science Monthly - Page 441893Full view - About this book
 | Francis Galton - 1853 - 352 pages
...take to their fingers, which are to them as formidable instruments of calculation as a sliding-rule is to an English schoolboy. They puzzle very much...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 the sheep he was about to sell.... | |
 | 1855 - 632 pages
...tobacco (a stick is about an ounce) to be the rate of exchange for one sheep, it would sorely nuzzle a 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 yet we find a good many still adhering to the... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1864 - 506 pages
...required for units. Yet they seldom lose oxen ; the way in which they discover the loss of one is not hy the number of the herd being diminished, but by the...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 the sheep he was about to sell.... | |
 | James Greenwood - 1865 - 466 pages
...sorely puzzle a Damara to take two sheep and givc 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 ono of the sheep he was about to sell. Having satisfied himself that that one was honestly paid for,... | |
 | John George Wood - 1868 - 798 pages
...how many days' journey off a place may be, their ignorance of all numerical ideas is very annoying. In practice, whatever they may possess in their language,...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 the sheep he was about to sell.... | |
 | John George Wood - 1868 - 802 pages
...Thus, suppose two sticks of tobacco to be 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 two of the sticks apart, and take a sight over them at one of the sheep he was about to sell.... | |
 | 1871 - 442 pages
...suppose two sticks of tobacco to be the rate of exchange for one sheep, it would sorely puzzle a Dammara to take two sheep and give him four sticks. I have...he was about to sell. Having satisfied himself that that one was honestly paid for, and finding to his surprise that exactly two sticks remained in hand... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1871 - 470 pages
...suppose two sticks of tobacco to be the rate 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 1 Gallon, Tropical South Africa, p. 132. sticks apart, and take a sight over them at one of the sheep... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1873 - 512 pages
...suppose two sticks of tobacco to be the rate of exchange for one sheep, it would sorely puzzle a Dammara to take two sheep and give him four sticks. I have...he was about to sell. Having satisfied himself that that one was honestly paid for, and finding to his surprise that exactly two sticks remained in hand... | |
 | 1873 - 698 pages
...exchange lor one sheep, it would sorely puzzle a Dammara to take two sheep .and give him four slicks. I have done so and seen a man put two of the sticks...satisfied himself that one was honestly paid for, and hnding to his surprise that exactly two sticks remained in hand to settle the account for the other... | |
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