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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    bricks. The towns and villages resem- ble those of Hindoostan. The people of Bali cut their hair short, Having no covering for the head, the coarse strong hair natural to them, standing erect like bristles, gives to the men of this island a ferocious and for- bidding look. They wear a small white fillet round the head as the signal of hostility but on no other occasion. The women have enormously distended aper- tures in the lobes of their ears. When a man is desirous of marrying a young woman, he pays a sum wbich is considered as the purchase-money. The usual price is thirty piastres. If he has not the means of paying the sum re-