A crocodile, or some indigenous serpent, or other dangerous animal, the Egyptian god being a beast sprawling on a purple carpet.
The indigo, in its indigenous state, and a variety of other plants, colour these cloths, an ell of which will serve as a dress for a Negroe of the lower class.
It has already been observed that cotton and indigo are indigenous to the Windward Coast of Africa.
Their villages were thus fairly permanent, although there was much moving about in summer owing to the nature of the food supply, which consisted chiefly of salmon, with roots and berries indigenous to the region.
The backwardness of the indigenous life of Africa shows how an equatorial position retards evolution.
Footnote W: Horses are abundant up the river; but they are not indigenous to the country.
The genus contains 220 species indigenous in the temperate and warmer parts of both hemispheres.
Among the hellebores indigenousto Greece and Asia Minor, H.
The skipper was presented in due form, the lady receiving him without the least mauvaise honte, which, after all, I believe to be indigenous to our island.
Another battalion succeeded, composed in the same way, and really I was agreeably surprised to find the indigenous force of the colony so efficient.
The Briton who claims Chatham's language as his mother-tongue may appropriate the dialect of the ring as far more truly indigenous than the German-French of his every-day discourse.
His subdued dress, quiet voice, suited him, were indigenous to his nature, not assumed: even Starr could see that.
Nevertheless, such ancient continental islands agree with those which have been separated in more recent geological times in containing both indigenous amphibians and mammals.
And these mighty creations are out of all proportion to the essential andindigenous elements and resources of the country.
Irish poetry certainly existed before Young Ireland, and was even considered, like oratory, to be a quality naturally and easily indigenous to the Irish genius.
The Maori race is not indigenous to New Zealand, but arrived there by migration from Hawai.
This palm is indigenous in the Malayan Archipelago and grows to the height of twenty to forty feet, in swampy land along the banks of rivers not far from the sea, but out of the reach of tidal influences.
The government of the Union wishes to transport the broken remnants of the indigenous population of the south, to the portion of this country which is nearest to Mexico, and at a great distance from the American settlements.
Although the vast country which we have been describing was inhabited by many indigenous tribes, it may justly be said, at the time of its discovery by Europeans, to have formed one great desert.
This comprises the catalogue of native trees, so far as they are known in our shanty; but, it is said that there are nearly as many more varieties indigenous to the country, though considerably scarcer than any of those mentioned.
The kauri is indigenous to this comparatively small section of New Zealand.
There are various species of duck indigenous to the country, and seen in great flocks on the rivers.
There are over a hundred distinct species of trees indigenous to this country, and goodness knows how many shrubs and other plants.
Among indigenous vegetable productions came first the universal fern-root (Pteris esculenta), which was cooked in various ways and made into a kind of bread.
Botanists have enumerated a hundred and thirty indigenous species, of which some forty are peculiar to the country.
Educated Americans are beginning to find this out, and to regret the loss of an indigenous character, which springs from the vulgarity and confusion of their nomenclature.
Swan believes that 'whatever was the origin of different tribes or families, the whole race of American Indians are native and indigenous to the soil.
It is not necessary to decide whether the new culture was indigenous or of foreign origin; or even to suppose it radically different from any that preceded or were contemporaneous with it.
Cotton has always been regarded as indigenous to India, and as the characteristic clothing material of that country, as flax is of Egypt, silk of China, and the wool of sheep and goats of Northern Asia.
The cotton plant was also found indigenous in the Sandwich Islands, the Galapagos, etc.
The latter, called Dasas or Dasyus, consisted, no doubt, of the indigenous tribes, with whom the Aryans had to carry on a continual struggle for the possession of the land.
Many species of indigenouspalms abound, and in places the forests are indescribably luxuriant.
The indigenous fauna of Brazil is noteworthy not only for the variety and number of its genera and species, but also for its deficiency in the larger mammals.
The economic plants of Brazil, both indigenous and exotic, are noticeably numerous.
In some cases even the worship of the indigenous population could hardly have remained without exercising some influence in modifying the belief of the Aryan race.
As far as they know, they are an indigenous race; they have a long pre-history of stone-age savagery.
The Fifth Level is the probability of complete failure--no human population established on this planet, and indigenous quasi-human life evolved indigenously.
In like manner, Wordsworth's face was, if not absolutely the indigenous face of the Lake district, at any rate a variety of that face, a modification of that original type.
Bulls are bought up at fabulous prices by foreigners, and especially by our cousins on the other side of the Atlantic, for the purpose of raising the indigenous cattle to the British standard.
The milk which comes by railway has, however, this disadvantage, that it will not keep nearly so long as the indigenousproduce of the metropolitan dairies.
There yet remain the powerful influences of the still earlier indigenous faith to be noted and accounted for.
