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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    on the caverns with which the rocks abound, . It must not be imagined that the. custom of going invariably naked so inures.them’ to the climate as to render them insensible to. the incle- mency of the weather. The British co- lonists have had repeated opportunities of making this observation, from seeing them in winter shivering with cold, or huddling together in heaps in their huts or in caverns, till a fire could be kindled to warm them. The habitations of the natives of the west coast of New Holland are describ- ed by the French navigators who have touched there as being miserable huts, formed of branches of trees crossing each other, and covered with brushwood