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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    pride and love of independence ; but withal an excessive inclination to theft. The women, says M. Leschenault, have in general a delicate and elegant shape, and proportions which remind the spectator of the beautiful statues of the great masters of antiquity. They consider corpulence as a great defect. The younger females have frequently very pleasing features ; and fine black eyes, full of expression, give vivacity to a face the uniform brown tint of which is never animated by the carna- tion of colder climates. Many of the inhabitants of Timor of Malay origin are still pagans, and many are also Mahometans; but the latter