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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    convicted of murder or treason has all his limbs broken with a hatchet, and he is then left to languish perhaps for se- veral days till death puts an end to his torments. All sentences that decree death or servitude must be confirmed by the rajah. The property of delin- quents who suffer capital punishment is confiscated and divided between the so- vereign and the judges. Of the Hindoo customs which prevail among the Balinese, the sacrifice of the widow on the funeral pile of the hus- band is carried to an excess unknown in India itself. A woman of any caste may sacrifice herself in this manner, but it is most frequent with the military and mercantile classes. It seldom hap-