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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    and rising from his seat, dances round the bloody banner with wild fantastic motions, at the same time brandishing his weapon, as if about to plunge it into the bosom of an enemy. In this attitude he repeats the oath in an en- thusiastic tone, pronouncing some dreadful imprecation against himself should he violate it, such as—that his favourite weapon may prove more in- jurious to himself than to his foe—or that his head may be cut off when he is left on the field—or that his heart, should he fall in battle, may be de- voured by his enemy. Mr. Crawfurd was present at a cere- mony of this kind at Macassar in 1814, when our native allies took an oath to