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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    marry a second till he has produced an- other head. The natives of Borneo have, long been notorious for their sanguinary disposition: they go forth for the ex- press purpose of cutting off heads, and lie in wait for the inhabitants of the coast. In a house which Palm entered during his excursion, in the island, he saw a human head at the entrance of almost every: apartment; some seemed to have been. cut off but a few days, and a hor- rid stench. was diffused over the whole village by these hideous trophies. Be- fore they: go forth on such an expedi-. tion, they take particular notice of the flight of a bird of the kite species, and decide from it whether to execute or to defer their design. When a. head is M3