 | Herodotus - 1824 - 388 pages
...pid river, this construction is more wonbut as the waters of the lake Prasias are derful. Larcher. ter. They tie a string about the foot of their young...XVII. After Megabyzus had taken the cities of the Paeonians, he dispatched seven Persians, who next to himself were most illustrious in the army to Macedonia,... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1848 - 634 pages
...burden they give fish for fodder ; of which there is such an abundance, that when a man has opened his trap-door, he lets down an empty basket by a cord...after waiting a short time, draws it up full of fish. They have two kinds of fish, which they call papraces and tilones. Those of the Paeonians, then, who... | |
 | Herodotus, Henry Cary - 1852 - 642 pages
...burden they give fish for fodder ; of which there is such an abundance, that when a man has opened his trap-door, he lets down an empty basket by a cord...after waiting a short time, draws it up full of fish. They have two kinds of fish, which they call papraces and tilones. Those of the 1 Vi ini.ii-, then,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 560 pages
...burden they give fish for fodder ; of which there is such an abundance, that when a man has opened his trap-door, he lets down an empty basket by a cord...after waiting a short time, draws it up full of fish." In Ireland a number of more or lees artificial islands called "Crannoges"f (fig. 119) are known historically... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 556 pages
...burden they give fish for fodder ; of which there is such an abundance, that when a man has opened his trap-door, he lets down an empty basket by a cord...lake, and, after waiting a short time, draws it up. fall of fish." In Ireland a number of more or less artificial islands called "Crannoges"f (fig. 119)... | |
 | John George Wood - 1870 - 918 pages
...Orbelus/ but every man has several wives. which there is such abundance, that when a man has opened his trap-door, he lets down an empty basket by a cord...after waiting a short time, draws it up full of fish." In these words the old historian describes with curious exactitude the mode of life adopted by some... | |
 | 1872 - 806 pages
...burden they give fish for fodder ;. of which there is such an abundance, that, when a man has opened his trap-door, he lets down an empty basket by a cord...after waiting a short time, draws it up full of fish." And certain savage or semi-savage tribes live in the same manner, even at the present day. The fishermen... | |
 | 1872 - 798 pages
...burden they give fish for fodder ; of which there is such an abundance, that, when a man has opened his trap-door, he lets down an empty basket by a cord...after waiting a short time, draws it up full of fish." And certain savage or semi-savage tribes live in the same manner, even at the present day. The fishermen... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1872 - 702 pages
...fish for fodder; of which there is such an abundance, that when a man has opened his trap-door, ho lets down an empty basket by a cord into the lake,...after waiting a short time, draws it up full of fish." At the Newcastle meeting of the British Association, in 1 863, Lord Lovaine described a Lake-dwelling... | |
 | Half hours - 1875 - 376 pages
...planks, and leading down to the lake. Of fish there is such an abundance that when a man has opened his trap-door, he lets down an empty basket by a cord...and, after waiting a short time, draws it up full of fish.t The lake-dwellers followed two different systems in the construction of their dwellings, in... | |
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... trap-door closely fitted in the planks, and leading down to the lake. They tie the young children with a cord round the foot, fearing lest they should fall into the lake beneath. To their horses and beasts of burden they give fish for fodder ; of... 
