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 the habits of the European half- - breed of Timor every thing savours of Asiatic effeminacy. Their garments are light, ample and confined as little as possible by ligatures. The men wear wide drawers or a piece of cloth fas- tened round the waist by a girdle and reaching half-way down the leg ; anda gown of muslin or printed calico. Their hair, which is an object of their par- ticular attention, usually floats loosely over their shoulders. They anoint it with cocoa-nut oil, in which odoriferous plants have been infused, but which, in spite of this precaution retains a rancid smell, that is disagreeable to persons not accustomed to this singu- lar perfume. When they visit the