Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    only is visible. The pile is then set on fire and they are consumed to ashes. The women on this occasion were al- ready dispatched, and most of them in flames, before the body of ,the queen arrived, borne on a superb litter, con- sisting of eleven steps, and supported by a number of persons proportioned to the rank of the deceased. At each side of the body were seated two wo- men, one holding an umbrella and the other a fly-flap of horse-hair, to drive away the insects. Two priests pre- ceded the litter in vehicles of a pecu- liar form, each holding in one hand a cord attached to the litter and ringing a little bell in the other: while such a noise was made with gongs, tabours, c 2