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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    are more depraved. As in the island of Savu, the syrup of the palm-tree is frequently their only food ; though the soil produces rice and barley in abun- dance. Whenever they kill a buffalo or a hog, they mix the blood with their drink ; and each then cuts off pieces of the flesh wherever he pleases and slight- ly broils them on the embers. They often make a sort of spirit resembling arrack with the juice of the palm-tree, or ferment that liquor in large tubs, into which they put certain roots of a stimu- lating quality. On the coast, in the district of Ter- mano, there are two large rocks about 250 fathoms distant from each other. The natives consider them as husband