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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were sitting with the other men, the father threw two spears towards them, but they fell short as he evidently in- tended. Here Bennillong took his infant child in his arms and held it up to the corpse, the bearers turning away their heads to avoid it. The reputed brother of the deceased, a very fine boy about five years of age, was then called for, ‘but he came forward very reluctantly, and was presented in the same manner as the other child: after which they proceeded to the governor’s garden. Some delay took place at the grave, which was found to be too short: but after sume time, it being completed 7 2