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 decease. of any person, it: is said that the nearest relation is obliged to expose himself to a dangerous. trial for permitting him to die. .He stands with a shield of hard wood at some-dis- tance from his companions, who with great dexterity throw spears at him, while he defends himself till. wounded or perhaps killed, and there the affair ends. They have also a strange kind of sin- gle combat with the clubs mentioned above. The two antagonists decide who is to have the advantage of giving the first blow by drawing a line on the ground, and alternately throwing their clubs into the air: when he whose wea- pon lies nearest to the line is entitled to