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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    brought to the same degree of familia- rity as our dogs. The natives of the east coast of New Holland, in the neighbourhood of the British colony at Sydney, one of whom is represented in the annexed engra- ving, are brutally ferocious, and fre- quently engaged in sanguinary quarrels among themselves, Their weapons in these conflicts are spears and clubs. It frequently happens that a band of ten or twelve will take arms against an equal number of antagonists, and fight with fury till one of the parties is nearly if not wholly exterminated. Instances : are known of so many as two hundred engaging in this manner, in the vici- nity of the town, and when the spears