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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    the most miserable and savage races on the face of the earth. In stature they © are of the middling size; there are few individuals among them who can be said to.be tall, and still fewer who are either well made or deformed. Their arms, legs and thighs are for the most part remarkably small and thin, which is probably owing to the poorness of their living. In complexion they seem to vary, for some of them, even when cleansed from smoke and filth, are nearly as black as the Negroes of Africa, while others exhibit only a cop- per or Malay colour. Their heads are in general covered with black hair, though some have been seen with hair of areddish cast, probably the effect of