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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    but also deputations sent by the kings with whom he was in alliance. Owing to the difficulty of collecting the wealth necessary for so expensive a ceremony, it is not uncommon for the remains of kings to be kept in the house two, three, four and even five © years before their interment. The neighbouring kings send women to mourn over them, and their own wives are obliged to watch in turn beside the body. The ceremony of interment be- gins with great lamentations. At the moment when the bearers are about to carry the deceased out of the house, am altercation takes place between them and the women, who strive to detain the body: the bearers, however, prove toa