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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    those whose blood they have shed : they then dry the heads in the smoke, like the New Zealanders, and hang them up in the general house of their tribe as memorials of their victory. This house is but a large shed, covered only at top, around the outside of which are sus- pended the horns and jaws of the deer which have been sacrificed. Within it there is nothing but the heads of ene- mies slain in war. This building is usually situated near the residence of the king or chief, which is sometimes inclosed by a stone wall raised without mortar or cement: but in time of war this wall is covered with thorn-bushes and spikes to prevent surprize from an. enemy,