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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    about one o’clock in the morning, when the women began to cry and con- tinued todo so for sometime. At day- light Bennillong brought his canoe to the place, and cutting it to the pro- per length, caused the body to be placed in it, with a spear, a fizgig, a throwing- stick and a line, which the deceased had worn round his waist. Some time was taken up in adjusting all this business, during which the men were silent; but the women and children uttered the most dismal lamentations. The father stood alone and unemploy- ed, asilent observer of all that was doing about his deceased son, and a perfect picture of unaffected sorrow. | _Every thing being ready, the men