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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    companied by many of the natives and among the rest by four young girls. The latter received with indifference the garments that were given to them, and, that they might not be encumber- ed with a useless burden, immediately hung them on the bushes near the path, intending no doubt to take them away on their return. The little value they set on such presents was evinced by the circumstance, that none of them wore any of the garments which had been -given to them the day before. These young women were all of very cheerful dispositions and attempted to amuse the strangers by songs, with which, says Labillarditre, I was singu- larly struck, from the great analogy of