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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    woods by one arm with a degree of violence by which one would expect it to be broken or dislocated, being cnly anxious to convey his prize in safety to his own party. This savage proceeding is so constantly practised, that even children make it a game of amusement. The relatives of the. injured female never attempt to resent the outrage, but only retaliate when they find a con- venient opportunity. The women thus barbarously forced from their natural relations, become the wives of those by whom they are carried off, are incor. — porated into their tribe, and but seldom quit them for others. The disposal of the dead in this coun- try varies according to the age of. the