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, sometimes turning and facing the corpse, at others waving their tufts among the bushes. When they fronted the corpse, which was carried head foremost, the bearers made a motion with their heads from side to side, as if endeavouring to avoid the persons who fronted them. After proceeding thus to some distance, Wattewal turned aside from the path, and went up to a bush, into which he seemed to look very narrowly, as if searching for some- thing, and waving about the tufts of grass he held in either hand; but his search proving fruitless, the attendants all turned back and went on at a quicker pace than before. On drawing near the spot where the women and children