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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    which they wear in such profusion that their arms up to the elbows are com- pletely covered with them. Others have caps of twisted leaves. They take as many wives as they can maintain, and sometiines sell their children that they may be enabled to encrease the number of their women. Pigafetta remarks, that the chief with whom he had an interview was sur- rounded exclusively by females. They bestow very little pains on the cultivation of the soil.’ In the dry sea- son they set fire to the trees and bushes to clear the land, and to prepare it for sowing in the rainy season. Besides, their fondness for hunting, in which they are almost incessantly engaged,