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Alexander von Humboldt: „Innocence“, in: ders., Sämtliche Schriften digital, herausgegeben von Oliver Lubrich und Thomas Nehrlich, Universität Bern 2021. URL: <https://humboldt.unibe.ch/text/1821-Personal_Narrative_of-17-neu> [abgerufen am 25.04.2024].
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| Titel | Innocence | ||||
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| Jahr | 1822 | ||||
| Ort | London | ||||
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Nachweis in: George Ramsay, A New Dictionary of Anecdotes, Illustrative of Character and Events: From Genuine Sources, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones 1822, S. 355–356.
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| Sprache | Englisch | ||||
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It is an old opinion, that the most savage beastswere innoxious to man in his state of innocence. Nay,it was even a received opinion in remote times, that avirgin or an infant were safe from the assaults of themost ferocious. The following anecdote, from Hum-boldt’s Travels in South America, is certainly in con-sonance with that belief. He says:
“The tigers, or jaguars, which are less dangerousfor the
cattle than the bats, (a species of vampire),come into the village of Atures, and devour the pigsof the poor Indians. The missionary related to us astriking instance of the familiarity of these animals,upon the whole so ferocious. Some months before ourarrival, a jaguar, which was thought to be young,though of a large size, had wounded a child in playingwith him; I use confidently this expression, whichmay seem strange, having on the spot verified thefacts, which are not without interest in the history ofthe manners of these animals. Two Indian children,a boy and a girl, about eight and nine years of age,were seated on the grass near the village of Atures, inthe middle of a savannah, which we have often tra-versed. At two o’clock in the afternoon, a jaguarissued from the forest, and approached the children,bounding around them; sometimes he hid himself inthe high grass; sometimes he sprung forward, hisback beat, his head hung down, in the manner of ourcats. The
little boy, ignorant of his danger, seemedto be sensible of it
only when the jaguar, with one ofhis paws, gave him several
blows on the head. Theseblows, at first slight, became ruder
and ruder; theclaws of the jaguar wounded the child, and the
blood|356|flowed with violence. The
girl then took a branch ofa tree, struck the animal, and it
fled from her. TheIndians ran up at the cries of the children,
and sawthe jaguar, which retired, bounding, without the
leastshow of resistance.”
INNOCENCE.