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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    smaller council of seven, from which by custom women are excluded, and in which the president, if necessary, has two votes, carry on the affairs of gene- ral government, and decide on all ques- tions, peace and war excepted, which must be referred to the great national council of forty. Among the people of Celebes the su- perstitious attachment to relics is car- ried to an extravagance not easily cre- dited. The regalia of the different states consist of a number of rusty iron weapons, such as A7ises, hangers, spears and other inconsiderable articles, which are held in the most religious venera- tion; nay, the possession of them is considered indispensably necessary to