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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    speaks of hearths of clay made by the natives in these hollow trees : whenever I have found any clay in them it did not appear to me to have been placed there by the savages: but it may fre- quently be seen piled up between the roots from natural causes. Besides, the natives of this country do not make their fires upon hearths, but kindle them on the bare ground and cook their vic- tuals over the coals. Some of the largest trees were hollowed by the fire throughout the whole length of their trunks, so as to form a sort of chimneys, but still they continue to vegetate. Another contrivance used by these people to shelter them from the wind is a fence, composed of stripes of the