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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    to almost all the social institutions, still armed with the bow, arrow and club, sworn enemies to the Malays, swift of foot, dwelling in the clefts of rocks or in the recesses of. the forests, living exclusively on fruits and the produce of the chace; always at war either with one another or with the Malays; ferocious in all their habits and manners; and combining all the characteristics of the negro race pro- perly so called—shost, woolly, frizzled hair and a black colour. But this por- trait seems to be delineated from the accounts of the Dutch and Malays and not from actual observation. It does not even appear certain that any recent voyager has had opportunities of seeing