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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    WAIGIOO. Most of the natives of Waigioo go naked with the exception of a piece of coarse stuff apparently made of the bark of the fig-tree. The heat of the climate renders all other clothing un- necessary. The chiefs only wear very wide trowsers and jackets made of stuff which they buy from the Chinese who occasionally visit the island. Some of them wear also bracelets of silver, like- wise obtained from the Chinese ; and hats made of the leaves of the pandanus of a conical form and nearly resembling those of the Chinese: while others have