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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    served too towards the bottom of the shoulder-blades and in other places. Their baskets are clumsily made of a species of reed, and their drinking ves- sels are formed ofa large piece of the sea-weed called fucus palmatus, cut into a circular form and moulded into the shape of a purse. Upon the whole the people of this is- land are more savage than the natives of New-Holland. They seem to have no chiefs, each family being quite indepen- dent ; but children pay implicit obedi-: ence to their parents and wives to their husbands. They are utter strangers to the use even of the simple canoes of bark employed by their neighbours ;