Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    officiate as priests. While the Bramins,. like those of Hindoostan, carefully ab- stain from every kind of animal food, very little regard is paid to this and other prejudices and ceremonies by the mass of their countrymen, who eat beef without scruple, and to whom the do- mestic fowl and hog furnish the most favourite articles of diet. The Bramins perform their devotions. within their own houses: they never follow any servile oceupation and are highly respected. To this caste gene-» rally belong the rajahs or chiefs of the eight independent states into which the island is divided: but this is not always the case, the present rajah of Blelling being of the second caste. The Bra.