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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    their heads bound round with a sort of turban. All these people have curly hair, which grows very thick and is of consi- derable length. The colour of their skins is not very black. Some suffer the beard to grow on the upper lip, and have their ears and the septum of the nose perforated. Their arms are bows, with which they are very dexterous in shooting at amark, and very long lances pointed with iron and bone.