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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    custom had taught her to bear the most cruel raillery. . Another object of contempt among these people is the female slave to whose lot it falls to wash the corpse of her mistress during the five weeks before the funeral rites. The perform- ance of this rite, however, saves her life, and liberty is afterwards given her to retire whithersoever she pleases to earn her subsistence. To prevent the infection which would otherwise be generated by keeping dead bodies so long in so intensely hot’ a climate, they rub them daily with salt, pepper and other aromatics, by the application of which the corpses fall