There are no hogs on these islands, and the inhabitants subsist chiefly on fish.

The Tibboos carry on a traffic between Mourzouk and Bournou, and subsist chiefly on camel's milk.

Some, as the prairie-dogs, live upon grasses, while others subsist chiefly upon seeds, berries, and leaves.

The inhabitants on the shores of the lake subsist chiefly on fish, which they catch in an ingenious way.

The Moors, indeed, subsist chiefly on the flesh of their cattle; and are always in the extreme of either gluttony or abstinence.

They subsist chiefly on roots and fish, and the bark of a tree, which I am told grows also in the West Indies.

I have no reason to doubt but that the soft-billed birds, which winter with us, subsist chiefly on insects in their aurelia state.

During this time they subsist chiefly on salmon, and, as that fish disappears on the approach of autumn, they are driven to seek subsistence elsewhere.

For in these ages men subsisted chiefly by pasturage or hunting.

They were noted for their hospitality, and subsisted chiefly by agriculture.

Subsisting chiefly upon meat, their favourite food is wild pig.

It was only a little out-of-the-way store which subsisted chiefly on the framing of pictures.

He fabricated his own clothes, and subsisted chiefly on milk and potatoes, the product of his realm.

He with his fellow-prisoners, and indeed the whole party, were half starved, subsisting chiefly on wild berries.

The people here are wretchedly poor, subsisting chiefly by fishing, and by their precarious gains from ships which anchor in the port.

After accomplishing forty futile miles a day, after subsisting chiefly upon army biscuits and bully beef, they had earned their right to rest.