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" They live in the following manner ; every man has a hut on the planks, in which he dwells, with a 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... "
The Histories of Herodotus - Page 279
by Herodotus - 1899 - 568 pages
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Ridpath's Universal History: An Account of the Origin, Primitive ..., Volume 1

John Clark Ridpath - 1897 - 442 pages
...whenever a man marries, for each wife he sinks three piles, bringing wood from a mountain called Orbelus: but every man has several wives. They live in the...after waiting a short time, draws it up full of fish." But we have no occasion to seek for evidence in the ancient world of the existence of such structures...
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Life in Early Britain: Being an Account of the Early Inhabitants of this ...

Bertram Coghill Alan Windle, Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle - 1897 - 272 pages
...lake beneath. To their horses and beasts of burden they give fish for fodder, of which there is such abundance, that when a man has opened his trap-door,...after waiting a short time, draws it up full of fish." This description of the dwelling-places particularly associated with the people of the Bronze period...
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Pre-historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and ...

Sir John Lubbock - 1900 - 748 pages
...every man has a hut on the planks, in which he dwells, with a trap-door closely fitted in the plauks, and leading down to the lake. They tie the young children...after waiting a short time, draws it up full of fish." At the Newcastle meeting of the British Association in 1863, Lord Lovaine described a Lake-dwelling...
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Pre-historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and ...

Sir John Lubbock - 1900 - 984 pages
...to the lake. They tie the young children with a cord round the foot, fearing lest they should full into the lake beneath. To their horses and beasts...after waiting a short time, draws it up full of fish." At the Newcastle meeting of the British Association in 18G3, Lord Lovaine described a Lake-dwelling...
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Herodotus, Book 7

Herodotus - 1901 - 626 pages
...man marries, for each wife he sinks three piles, bringing wood from a mountain called Orbelus : • but every man has several wives. They live in the...after waiting a short time, draws it up full of fish Thejr hare two kinds of fish, which they call papraces and tilones. Those of the Paeonians, then, who...
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