Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    At the foot of the tomb most remark- able for size and form observed by the French under Captain Freycinet, were five human heads and two fine shells. Within the hut raised over it were se- veral little flags of various colours, some arrows and a china plate. The building was covered by an inverted canoe. Other tombs of smaller dimen- sions, and constructed with less care, were scattered about the island, and in | almost all were offerings still fresh and some broken weapons. The habitations of the people of Ra- wak are built on piles. They are of rude construction and have in general but oneroom, The timbers are bound together with the fibres of the cocoa.