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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    not destroy the cellular membrane, for they are of the same colour as the rest of the skin. _ The only weapons seen by the French among the savages were long spears. One of them, being solicited to give a specimen of his dexterity, grasped a spear with the right hand near the mid- dle, then raising it as high as his head and holding it horizontally, he drew it back towards himself three times fol- lowing with a jerk, which gave it a very perceptible tremulous motion at either end, when it darted forward — nearly a hundred paces. It flew ina tolerably horizontal direction more than three-fourths of the distance. The tremulous motion communicated to the