| Perry Walton - 1912 - 394 páginas
...first historical mention of cotton. In speaking of the people of India, he says, "They possess likewise a kind of plant, which instead of fruit produces wool of a firmer and better quality than that of sheep: of this the Indians make their clothes." Cotton was brought... | |
| Lawton Bryan Evans, Luther N. Duncan, George W. Duncan - 1913 - 344 páginas
...the first people to cultivate cotton. Herodotus, "the father of history," speaks of a plant in India "which, instead of fruit, produces wool, of a finer and better quality than that of sheep." Cotton has been grown in the old world for more than two thousand years. The mummies found by Pizzarro... | |
| William Haslam Mills - 1917 - 400 páginas
...the first to mention cotton in its oriental use. Writing of India, he says : " They possess likewise a kind of plant which, instead of fruit, produces...and better quality than that of sheep; of this the Indians make their clothes." That civilisation reached a very high standard among the Hindus seems... | |
| Insurance Society of New York - 1922 - 952 páginas
...prescribed heavy penalties for thefts of cotton. Herodotus wrote some time about 440 BC that the Hindus "possess a kind of plant which — instead of fruit...produces wool of a finer and better quality than that of a sheep, and of this the Indians make their clothes." Cotton is not mentioned in the Bible, though... | |
| Insurance Society of New York - 1922 - 952 páginas
...prescribed heavy penalties for thefts of cotton. Herodotus wrote some time about 440 BC that the Hindus "possess a kind of plant which — instead of fruit...produces wool of a finer and better quality than that of a sheep, and of this the Indians make their clothes." Cotton is not mentioned in the Bible, though... | |
| 1939 - 722 páginas
...before the Christian era the Indian people "possessed a kind of plant which, instead of fruit, produced wool of a finer and better quality than that of sheep; of this the Indians made their cloths." Later on, explorers, conquerors, and travelers of all periods acclaimed... | |
| 1926 - 1038 páginas
...Hindu hymn 105, verse 8, of the Rig Veda dating back to 1500 BC (43, p. 53.) Herodotus mentions that "the Indians possess a kind of plant which instead...finer and better quality than that of sheep; of this they make their clothes." (6, pp. 2-3.) Thomas Ellison in his handbook on the cotton trade states that... | |
| Elizabeth Dyer - 1927 - 388 páginas
...cotton are also interesting. Herodotus, in 445 BC, in speaking of the people of India, said, " They possess a kind of plant, which instead of fruit produces wool of a finer, better quality than that of sheep, and of this the Indians make their clothes." Engravings still exist... | |
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