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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    deceased; for the young people are consigned to the graye, and those who have passed the prime of life are burned. - Collins, who was an eye-witness of the ceremonies practised on both occasions, has minutely described them in his ex- cellent history of the British colony in this country. Both tuok place in the immediate vicinity of Sydney. Of the death and interment of a native named Balooderry, he gives the following ac- count, From being one day in apparently _perfect health, he was brought in on the next, extremely ill, and attended by Bennillong, whom he found singing over him and using such means as sue perstition suggested for the recovery