"Ethnographical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... long struggle intervening between the age of Vespasian and that of Odoacer, during all the preliminary ethnographical revolutions which preceded the great people's wandering, the Netherlands remained subject provinces. Their country was upon the high road which led the Goths to Rome. Those low and barren tracts were the outlying marches ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... Without settling the difficult ethnographical questions which are involved in this problem, we propose to follow the Kyushu invaders into the Main island. We will note the slow and laborious steps by which they proceeded to establish a government, ...
— Japan • David Murray
... to be worn largely by the Khasis, and is still used extensively by the Syntengs and Lynngams and by the Mikirs, and that it should have been found amongst these Eastern Nagas is certainly remarkable. It is to be regretted that the investigations of the Ethnographical Survey, as at present conducted, have not extended to these Eastern Nagas, who inhabit tracts either outside British territory or in very remote places on its confines, so that we are at present unable to state whether ...
— The Khasis • P. R. T. Gurdon |
