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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    chipelago, but was supplanted by Ma- hometanism in all of its islands except- ing Bali, where it is at present almost the only form of worship. The Bali- nese preserve the distinction of castes, of which the Bramins alone can be considered as genuine Hindoos;_ the great body of the people being left to their local superstitions, which consist in the worship of personifications of the elements and of the most striking natu- ral objects that surround them. Thus every tribe in Bali has its peculiar tute- lar god, and the villages, mountains, forests and rivers have their respective guardians. ‘To these deities rude tem. ples are constructed, in which persons of the lower orders, and never Brains, Bow