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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    than to the prejudices of his nation, re- presented to her so strongly the dis- grace which she would bring upon her- self and all her family by preferring to live, that the unfortunate girl, sum- moning all her courage, gaily leaped into the flames, which were already consuming the remains of her hus- band. At the death of the reigning king, the whole of his wives and concubines sometimes to the number of one hun- dred or one hundred and fifty, devote themselves to the flames. On this oc- casion they are not previously dispatch- ed with the dagger; and as they are permitted to walk without restraint, it happened at the funeral of the late