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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    in a semi-circle were occupied by the rajahs and the Europeans present. Each rajah, dressed in a gown of flow- ered muslin, had before him a small table, on which was placed a little box containing betel and areca, which these people chew incessantly: behind his chair stood his retinue armed with long pikes and dressed in their best apparel, The one who was stationed immediately behind the rajah held the gold or silver- headed cane, which is the distinctive mark of his authority, and took care to raise it so that it might be seen by all present. On one side of the company was the music, consisting of Chinese gongs, tamtams and other instruments of copper, which made a dreadful noise.