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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    which he landed as making mucli the same appearance as the New Hollanders, being stark naked and having their hair cropped short. ‘They showed so hostile a disposition that the eaptain and his party returned immediately to their boat, and rowed along the shore; the savages, to the number of nearly one hundred, all the while shouting defiance, and throwing out of their hands some- thing, which burned exactly like gun powder, but made no report. What these fires were, or for what purpose intended, could not be guessed at. Those who discharged them had in their hands a short piece of stick, possibly a hollow cane, which they swung sidewise from them, and fire and rt 3