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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    away to mere skin and bone. These drugs, which form a coat four or five inches thick, are afterwards washed off, and in this state the bodies are burned. The coffin is perforated at the bottom to permit the animal fluids to run off, and these are caught in a vessel which is daily emptied with much ceremony. The Balinese have two great religious festivals following each other at an in- terval of ten days and repeated twice a year. The first lasts five days and the second two. They occur in December and J une, at the winter and summer » solstices; the first when the great rice crop is sown and the second when it is reaped. They are dedicated to the worship of the gods, festivity and re- VOL. II. D~