Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inches broad and above an’ inch thick ; these are said to be a mark of distinc- tion. Both sexes have the ears perfo- rated, but it does not appear that they put rings or other ornaments in them. The language of the natives of Savu has some analogy with several dialects of the Great Ocean, and with the Malay, which is the common stock of all those languages ; but it forms nevertheless a distinct language, and most of the words that compose it differ considerably from the Malay.