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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    OMBAY. To the north of Timor is situated the island of Ombay, the inhabitants of which are represented as cannibals, who acknowledge no chief, one village being incessantly at war with another, who dip their weapons in poison kept in a hollow bamboo, and suspend in their dwellings the sculls of their van- quished enemies. Their skin is of the colour of terra di sienna; their eyes fierce and generally sunk in the head ; and they have a low forehead, thick lips and large mouth. Some have aquiline noses; and all have a broad