 | John Kennedy - 1851 - 318 pages
...not so much to gratify their appetite as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus when a man becomes infirm, and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own...they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge, the import of which is — " The season is come, the fruit is ripe, and -it must descend." The victim descends,... | |
 | 1853 - 158 pages
...invite his own children eat him, in the season when salt and mes are cheapest. He then ascends a, 72 tree, round which his friends and offspring assemble;...they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge, the import of which is, "The season is come, the fruit is ripe, and it must descend." The victim descends,... | |
 | Osmond de Beauvoir Priaulx - 1854 - 564 pages
...not so much to gratify their appetite as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own...as they shake the tree join in a funeral dirge, the import of which is : The season is come, the fruit is ripe and it must descend. The victim descends,... | |
 | Charles Pickering - 1854 - 564 pages
...not so much to gratify their appetite, as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own...He then ascends a tree, round which his friends and ofl'spring assemble, and as they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge, the import of which is, '... | |
 | John Foster - 1858 - 626 pages
...Sumatra it is an approved custom, that " When a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he invites his own children to eat him, in the season when salt...they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge, the import of which is ' The season is come — the fruit is ripe — and it must descend.' The victim... | |
 | John Foster - 1858 - 624 pages
...Sumatra it is an approved custom, that " When a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he invites his own children to eat him, in the season when salt...they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge, the import of which is ' The season is come— the fruit is ripe — and it must descend.' The victim descends,... | |
 | 1858 - 754 pages
...not so much to gratify their appetite as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus, when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own children to eat him, in a season when salt mid limes are cheapest. He then ascends a tree, round which liis friends and of&pring... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1860 - 624 pages
...not so much to gratify their appetite as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own...they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge, the import of which is : ' The season is come, the fruit is ripe, and it must descend.' The victim descends,... | |
 | 1860 - 612 pages
...of their religious ceremonies consists in devouring the sick and aged. " When a man becomes infirm, and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own...they shake the tree, join in a funeral dirge, the import of which is, 'The season is come; the fruit is ripe, and it must descend.' The victim descends,... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1870 - 350 pages
...horror, might excite a smile. Thus when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he is said.to invite his own children to eat him in the season when...salt and limes are cheapest. He then ascends a tree around which his friends and offspring assemble, and as they shake the tree, go on in a funeral dirge,... | |
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... that they frequently eat their own relations when aged and infirm, and that, not so much to gratify their appetite, as to perform a pious ceremony. Thus, when a man becomes infirm and weary of the world, he is said to invite his own children to eat... 
