 | John Adams - 1822 - 144 pages
...other discharges it. Soap is manufactured of wood-ashes and palmoil; sandals of bull and cow-hides; baskets of various forms are ingeniously wrought and...good-looking, muscular, and very black ; and their tattow, or national mark, consists of three knobs of skin raised horizontally from each temple. Their... | |
 | John Adams - 1823 - 292 pages
...and parallel with the wall, at the north-west extremity of the town, is the road which leads to Hio, a country of great extent, and inhabited by a powerful...persons, goodlooking, muscular, and very black; and o their tattoo, or national mark", consists of three knobs of skin raised horizontally from each temple.... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1863 - 364 pages
...countenances as amongst the seniors of Abeokuta. Their * <A singular custom prevails here (Ardrah), that of anointing, occasionally, the interior walls...smell, and fills up crevices which would otherwise tbe tenanted by noxious and troublesome insects.' — (Captain John Adams, p. 81.) calvaria depressed... | |
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Soap is manufactured of wood-ashes and palmoil; sandals of bull and cow-hides; baskets of various forms are ingeniously wrought and manufactured ; also earthenware for culinary and other purposes ; besides stools, canoes, and mats, A singular custom prevails... 