Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    apertures, furnished only with a slight trellis-work of rattan, instead of win- dows, permit the free circulation of the air. The interior of the houses is frequently sprinkled with water for the sake of coolness. As there is no variety in their pur- suits, their mode of spending one day affords a sample of the whole year. The master of the house passes the greatest part of his time in smoking. His wife and children, squatted on mats amidst their slaves, prepare leaves of tebacco for smoking or chewing with betel, or make trifling articles of rice- straw or leaves of the pandanus. They bathe twice or three times a day, have three meals, take a nap in the after.