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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    used, as in Abyssinia, for small coin. The Biadjos are fond of tobacco and strong liquors. Of their social institutions but little is known. Thosewho are nearest: to the coasts are subject to the sovereigns of the latter: but in the interior they seem to be under petty chiefs, who pos- sess a. judicial authority... They have recourse! to a very simple :kind of or- deal for the purpose of ascertaining the truth : into a pot containing’ water and ashes are thrown’ two small copper buttons, one of which must be taken out by each of the contending parties, and he whose button is the brighter of the two is deemed to be in the right. ‘Pagans as well as Mahometans allow