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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    mins may marry women of inferior castes, but the issue of such unions forms a particular caste. called doud- janga. Tn this island, as in Hindoostan, there is a despised class of people who be- long to none of the castes and are de- nominated ¢échandalas. ‘They are not allowed to dwell in the villages, and carry on the professions of potters, dyers, tanners and distillers. The dan- cing-girls are almost all of the third or fourth caste. The habitations of the people of Bali differ much from those of the Javanese ; they are usually built of earth, and sur- rounded by walls of burnt or unburnt B83