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" Poliars occasionally trade with the country people, who place cotton and grain on some stone, and the wild creatures, as soon as the strangers are out of sight, take them and put honey in their place, but they will allow no one to come near them. "
Travels in Peru and India: While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona ... - Page 404
by Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1862 - 572 pages
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Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society, Issue 31

Hakluyt Society - 1847 - 126 pages
...to sleep under rocks, and live on wild honey and roots. They oc-casionally trade with the peasantry, who place cotton and grain on some stone, and the...creatures, as soon as the strangers are out of sight, take these and put honey in their place. But they will let no one come near them. (Peru and India, p. 404.)...
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Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society, Issue 31

Hakluyt Society - 1847 - 126 pages
...to sleep under rocks, and live on wild honey and roots. They occasionally trade with the peasantry, who place cotton and grain on some stone, and the...creatures, as soon as the strangers are out of sight, take these and put honey in their place. But they will let no one come near them. (Peru and India, p. 404.)...
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Peruvian Bark: A Popular Account of the Introduction of Chinchona ...

Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1880 - 592 pages
...rocks, and live on wild honey and roots. The women run with them, like wild goats, their children slung on their hips. The Poliars occasionally trade with...interior plateau are covered with an aromatic grass (Andropogon), which grows in large coarse tufts, like the Stipa yehu in Peru ; and it is not until...
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Peruvian bark

Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1880 - 588 pages
...rocks, and live on wild honey and roots. The women run with them, like wild goats, their children slung on their hips. The Poliars occasionally trade with...them. The undulating hills and valleys of the interior * Yet I missed the Berberis Mahonia, which in the Nilgiris is not found beyond the limits of the south'west...
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The Silent Trade: A Contribution to the Early History of Human Intercourse

Sir Philip James Hamilton Grierson - 1903 - 130 pages
...Madura, Markham 4 says that they " occasionally trade with the country people, who place cotton or grain on some stone, and the wild •creatures, as...place, but they will allow no one to come near them." Again, Humboldt,5 in speaking 1 Ribeyro, " Histoire de l'isle de Ceylon," Amsterdam, 1701, p. 179....
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