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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    « 20 THE ASIATIC ISLANDS, &c. is thrown to the dogs to be devoured— the most ignominious mode of inflicting death in that country. At the funeral of the king’s two sons, who died shortly before, forty-two wo- men belonging to one, and thirty-two to the other, were put to death and burned in the manner described above : but on such occasions the princesses of royal blood Jeap of themselves at once into the flames, as did at this particular time the chief wives of the princes in question, because they consider it a dishonour for any one to lay hands on their persons. A kind of bridge is therefore erected over the burning pile, which they mount, holding a paper elose to their foreheads, and having