 | Royal Society of Canada - 1883 - 792 páginas
...sight of those marvellous Ewaipanoma, though anxious enough to do so. Their eyes, as reported, were in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts ; nor could the truth be doubted, since every child in the provinces of Arromaia and Cauuri affirmed... | |
 | Stephen Greenblatt - 2008 - 225 páginas
...possible and what is only fabulous. In Guiana in the 15905 Sir Walter Ralegh hears of a people who 'are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders,...and their mouths in the middle of their breasts.' Ralegh knows that this 'may be thought a meere fable,' precisely the kind of report that had given... | |
 | Charles Reginald Dodwell - 1993 - 484 páginas
...credence to such monsters, for his account of the discovery of Guiana mentions the Ewaipanoma, who 'are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders...and their mouths in the middle of their breasts, and ... a long train of hair groweth backward between their shoulders'.90 Many such deviants are pictured... | |
 | Robert Earl Hood - 220 páginas
...Africa.25 Even Sir Walter Raleigh is said to have believed that the indigenous people of Guinea had "their eyes in their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts."26 Such views persisted in England and throughout Europe. Even in seventeenth-century England,... | |
 | Dinesh D'Souza - 1996 - 764 páginas
...voyager and courtier Walter Raleigh uncritically embraced reports of natives in the new world with "eyes in their shoulders and their mouths in the middle of their breasts." In 1540, Francisco de Orellana gave the biggest river in South America the name "Amazon" based on Caspar... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1148 páginas
...because every child in the provinces of Arromaia and Canuri affirm the same: they are called Ewaipanoma: y which I brought with me into England, told me that they are the most mighty men of all the land, and... | |
 | Joanna Gondris - 1998 - 428 páginas
...Ralegh's Discoverie . . . of Guiana (1596) in support of the passage: "They are call'd Ewaipanomaws, they are reported to have their Eyes in their Shoulders,...and their Mouths in the middle of their Breasts." Further, Theobald comments on Ralegh's status: Sir Walter, at the time that his Travels were publish'd,... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2001 - 1166 páginas
...the banks of which dwelt a people Cap Cap whose heads grew beneath their shoulders. Their eyes were In their shoulders, and their mouths in the middle of their breasts. Raleigh, in his Description of Guiana, gives asimilar account of a race of men. Cp. BLKMMYKS. Cap.... | |
 | Tahir Shah - 2002 - 316 páginas
...headless figures, with faces on their chests. Raleigh said they were 'Ewaipanoma' people, whose 'eyes were in their shoulders and their mouths in the middle of their breasts.' Such legends persist. In her book Witch-Doctor's Apprentice, Nicole Maxwell wrote of a common belief... | |
 | Matthew Restall - 2004 - 240 páginas
...northern coast, according to sixteenth-century English explorer Sir Walter Ralegh, was called Ewaipanoma: "They are reported to have their eyes in their shoulders,...middle of their breasts, and that a long train of haire groweth backward betwen their shoulders." Ralegh is skeptical of such a report, admitting that... | |
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Caora are a nation of people whose heads appear not above their shoulders, which though it may be thought a mere fable, yet for mine own part I am resolved it is true, because every child in the provinces of Arromaia and Canuri affirm the same. They are... 
