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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    Standing on the bow of a canoe of very rude construction, and sometimes fur- nished with a sail of cocoa-leaves, a man perceives a fish, directs his canoe towards it, and seldom fails to strike it, though at the distance of more than twenty paces, with a long lance of bam- boo headed with a double-pointed iron. They cook their fish by placing it on branches of green wood raised two or three feet above the ground, under which they kindle a fire. A large leaf, or the palm of the hand, serves for a plate, and the only implements they have for feeding themselves are their , fingers. The intestines of the largest fish, so far from being rejected by them, 8 3