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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    vation of the ground they have not the least notion; hence they depend for subsistence almost entirely on the fruits and roots they can gather and the fish they catch. As these resources are at best precarious, it is no wonder that they are frequently distressed for provisions. In times of great scarcity, says Collins, the unhappy natives are reduced to such extreme leanness, that you would take them for so many skeletons, and whole tribes have perished for want of food. . On the sea-coast, the natives subsist principally on fish, which the men usually catch with fizgigs and the wo- men with hooks and lines, The fizgig, which is made of the wattle and has a