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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    bitants. M. Arago, whose strong na- tional antipathy against every thing English leads us, however, to suspect that he has occasionally stretched a point in order to gratify his prejudices, professes to have been an eye-witness to such atrocities. I went, says he, to the house of one of the richest and most respectable merchants here to — spend the evening. What was my as- tonishment on entering the court, to see girls from fifteen to eighteen years of age encouraging in their savage sports men and women absolutely naked, and exhibiting all the appearance of the most disgusting wretchedness! “These persons, covered with old scars and armed with spears and clubs, had al-