 | Samuel Bennett - Australia - 1865 - 710 pages
...exactly like so many moving skeletons. The colours they use are mostly red and white ; the first of which is a kind of ochre, or red earth, which is found here in considerable quantities ; the latter is a fine pipe-clay. The bodies of the men are much scarified,... | |
 | Jack Egan - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 388 pages
...exactly like so many moving skeletons. The colours they use are mostly red and white, the first of which is a kind of ochre, or red earth, which is found here in considerable quantities; the latter is a fine pipe-clay. The bodies of the men are much scarified,... | |
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These marks, being generally white, gave the person, at a small distance, a most shocking appearance; for, npon the black skin the white marks were so very conspicuous, that they were exactly like so many moving skeletons. The colours they use are mostly... 