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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    the bottom of the garden, several na- tives attending, and the women and children lamenting and howling most dismally. The body was wrapped up in the jacket he usually wore, and some pieces of blanketing were tied round it with vines. The men were ail armed, and without any provocation two of them had a contest with clubs, while a few blows passed between some of the women. Spears were also thrown, but evidently as part of a mere cere- mony, and not with an intention of doing injury to any one. At the re- quest of Bennillong a blanket was thrown over the corpse, and a native, named Colebe, sat by it all night. They remained tolerably silent till