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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    wear the fur side next to their skins, and on the upper or flesh side they prick very ingeniously and regularly various ornamental devices. They appear to be a cheerful, good-natured people, without the savage warlike spirit of the natives of the coast. Their spears, which are heavy and clumsy, they throw only to a short distance out of their hands, like the New Zealanders ; and they have tame dogs, with which they are supposed to hunt the kangaroo. These native dogs are of a species very different from those known in Europe. They are of two colours, black and white, with spots of red, and some of them are very handsome. They never bark, are extremely fierce, and never can be