 | 1827 - 624 pages
...steersman) salaamed to them, according to the different modes of salutation ; he spoke to them in Malang, and other languages ; they returned no answer, but...men opposite to us, many of them very lusty ; and further on six more. They were very different in appearance from what the natives of the Great Andaman... | |
 | Mayne Reid - 1861 - 494 pages
...ground ; and we returned, in order to allow them an opportunity of picking it up: still they would not move. " I counted sixteen strong and able-bodied men opposite to us, many of them very lusty; and further on, six more. They were very different in appearance from what the natives of the Great Andaman... | |
 | Maurice Vidal Portman - 1899 - 546 pages
...intimate the purpose of our visit. The tyndal salaamed to them, according to the different Orienf al modes of salutation ; he spoke to them in Malay, and...men opposite to us, many of them very lusty ; and further on six more. They were very different in appearance from what the natives of the Great Andaman... | |
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Oriental modes of salutation ; he spoke to them in Malay, and other languages ; they returned no answer, but continued crouching in their menacing attitude, pointing their weapons at us wherever we turned. I held out my handkerchief towards them, but... 