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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    and clay, four feet wide and six feet in depth, about half of which only is above the surface of the ground. The en- trance is almost always on the contrary side to the direction of the wind that most commonly blows. The natives make their fire in the centre or around these dwellings ; the best of which are very rudely constructed and insuflicient to shelter them either from the heat of the sun or the violence of the wind. On some elevated points they erect also a sort of observatory, formed of a few trunks of trees, whence they can overlook the surrounding country. The natives themselves of this part of the continent are of middling stature, with a skin as black as ebony. Their