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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    noon, and chew betel and areca all the rest of the day. They pay visits in the evening, drink tea together, and do not break up till late at night. These parties are almost always enlivened by the singing of slaves accompanied by the Malay tambourine and Chinese tam- tam. The wealthiest inhabitants of Coupang have not far from the town pleasure- gardens mostly situated on the banks of the river. The hand of nature alone embellishes these retreats. A profu- sion of fruit trees, each differing from the other in shape and foliage, are grouped together without regularity : and trees having odoriferous flowers perfume the atmosphere. Care is merely