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IV.—THE MANNER OF LIFE OF WOMEN IN
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The Bkitons. The it the is days difficul...
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Iv.—The Manner Of Life Of Women In
IV . —THE MANNER OF LIFE OF WOMEN IN ENGLAND , FROM THE EARLIEST HISTORICAL PERIOD . : , . : 4 : '
The Bkitons. The It The Is Days Difficul...
The _Bkitons . The it the is days difficult early of history Solomon to fix of a perio Britain the Phoenicians d when is involved fiction knew in ends so of and much the truth ancient obscurit beg treasures ins y . that In
of Cornwall , and trafficked with the aborigines for tin ; but , anxious to cealed preserve the the monopol whence y of they the derived trade , these wealth iearl . y They navigators profited con by
sources the discoveries credulity they of ; the spread . times strange '; and , reports to deter respecting others from this prosecuting unknown
reg monst ion er . s They and , shrouded represented in perpetual it as cold gloom and ; barren as being , inhabited the utmost by
limit washed of the , the shores earth , of bordering Tartarus . on But that these illimitable travellers ocean ' tales which did
collated not find universal the account acceptance s iven . by Contemporary the traders of historians this mysterious carefully
country of credit , . and At stated besthowever facts g and , the made information inferences is which extremel are y deserving meagre .
our From forefathers Herodotus of , Strabo their , ferocious , and others aspect , we , learn of their of bodies the savage stained state with of
wo tending ad and no scantil flocks , , y but clothed engaged in in undressed con their stant skins hostility alike ; planting with for existenc each no other e corn and _, , depended their bow and on
they on spear , support So far . as history informs than us that , we presented can find no b better the natives similitude of the to
our South earl Sea y progenitors Islands to our navigators . Even y to tattooing their bodies the resemblance chieftai is complete wife . clad in the skin of a brindled
ox We fastened see the by Celtic a thorn , a string n ' s of jet beads about her neck , her luxuriant , tresses bound with wild flowers , seated at the door of her in which the Britons excelled
wattled or preparing hut , weaving the skins baskets of animals ( an taken art in the chase , slowly the _xaassing holes ) ,.
the ched thread in , made the hide of . sinew The or art vegetable of dressing fibre , wool in and and out flax of was early
pun suitable acquired , for and dyeing native from scarlet ingenuit woad and y yellow discovered purple , in addition many obtained vegetabl to from their e the favourite products tansy
blueextracted ; was , ; the various leaves , hues of the nut made -tree from yielded lichens a beautiful . Of the brown social , and condition stains of of
the _Ccesar wom " en that we were have the British no certain women record , both . It marrie was observed d and unmarried by Julius ,
besmeared tum ( , woad their ) , at whole certain body reli with gious the cer juic emonies e of . a 77 herb Another called writer glas-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 34, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/34/
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