We have no meanings for "say the natives" in our records yet.
1 But up north they say the natives are stronger and bigger than here.
2 It is the work of the old people (that is of our fathers), say the natives .
3 At all events the region looks desolate enough, and they say the natives of it are almost savages.
4 The missionaries say the natives have legends about when they were alive, but I never heard any such stories myself.
5 He says the natives are to be seen then.
6 Needless to say the Natives did not see their way to agree with such a one-sided bargain.
7 It was simply enormous, more especially that of one old bull, that carried, so said the natives , but a single tusk.
8 Moreover he said the natives were an exceedingly bad lot; but Obanjo usually thinks badly of the bush natives in these regions.
9 "Voster says the natives steal the fish," Hansie said, and crouched down to join the action.
10 "Of course I do," said the natives .
11 "It is the bark (meaning the coriaceous covering) of the putrefied cayman that is the cause," say the natives .
12 Take only one of the Provinces -Cape Colony -in which it is said the Natives hold (and therefore "waste") the most land.
13 "He says the natives that lived in this village have driven their enemies away, and are coming back-afterus," translated the head mule driver.
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