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Essay on the Superstitions, Customs, and Arts Common to the Ancient Egyptians, Abyssinians, and Ashantees

Essay on the Superstitions, Customs, and Arts Common to the Ancient Egyptians, Abyssinians, and Ashantees

Thomas Edward Bowdich
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1821 Excerpt: ... springs and gestures were astonishing) around the spacious circle formed by the multitude, firing under their legs, whilst resting their musquets on their hips, or whilst holding them erect with one hand, screaming and bounding from side to side like madmen; these extravagancies when read in the details of our entree, and of thec Customs, ' will forcibly recall Mr. Salt's descrip tion. The Ashantees always dispatch with the knife after wounding with the musquet, springing at the throat of their enemy directly they have fired in their charge. The Abyssinians, like the ancient Egyptians, never fight in the night, neither do the Ashantees, not even after sunset, whatever advantages they may lose. The Gallas never fight on a Friday, the Ashantees never on a Saturday. Marriage in Abyssinia is but a civil contract, subsisting only until dissolved by the wish of either party, which is extraordinary, considering their attachment to the Christian religion: so, in Ashantee, the mere return of the marriage present to the husband by the wife's family, on her dissatisfaction, dissolves the contract. In both countries the property of the wife received from her own family, is always enjoyed and disposed of independent of the husband. In Ashantee, the husband is never involved in the wife's quarrels, offences, or law-suits. Mr. Salt observed the great freedom of conduct of the Ozouros of royal descent, although he did not consider it to be so lawless as Bruce, by whose account it equalled that of the sisters and daughters of the kings of Ashantee. The Mallowas, Dagwumbas, and the nations of the interior of Africa, even more civilised than the Ashantees, are in the habit of making incisions in the skins of the faces and bodies of their children. I have shewn that the country..
Language
English
Pages
60
Format
Paperback
Publisher
General Books
Release
February 01, 2012
ISBN
0217561985
ISBN 13
9780217561983

Essay on the Superstitions, Customs, and Arts Common to the Ancient Egyptians, Abyssinians, and Ashantees

Thomas Edward Bowdich
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1821 Excerpt: ... springs and gestures were astonishing) around the spacious circle formed by the multitude, firing under their legs, whilst resting their musquets on their hips, or whilst holding them erect with one hand, screaming and bounding from side to side like madmen; these extravagancies when read in the details of our entree, and of thec Customs, ' will forcibly recall Mr. Salt's descrip tion. The Ashantees always dispatch with the knife after wounding with the musquet, springing at the throat of their enemy directly they have fired in their charge. The Abyssinians, like the ancient Egyptians, never fight in the night, neither do the Ashantees, not even after sunset, whatever advantages they may lose. The Gallas never fight on a Friday, the Ashantees never on a Saturday. Marriage in Abyssinia is but a civil contract, subsisting only until dissolved by the wish of either party, which is extraordinary, considering their attachment to the Christian religion: so, in Ashantee, the mere return of the marriage present to the husband by the wife's family, on her dissatisfaction, dissolves the contract. In both countries the property of the wife received from her own family, is always enjoyed and disposed of independent of the husband. In Ashantee, the husband is never involved in the wife's quarrels, offences, or law-suits. Mr. Salt observed the great freedom of conduct of the Ozouros of royal descent, although he did not consider it to be so lawless as Bruce, by whose account it equalled that of the sisters and daughters of the kings of Ashantee. The Mallowas, Dagwumbas, and the nations of the interior of Africa, even more civilised than the Ashantees, are in the habit of making incisions in the skins of the faces and bodies of their children. I have shewn that the country..
Language
English
Pages
60
Format
Paperback
Publisher
General Books
Release
February 01, 2012
ISBN
0217561985
ISBN 13
9780217561983

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