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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    their robes tucked up under their arms. As soon as they feel the heat, they throw themselves into the burning pit, ‘which is surrounded by a palisade of cocoa-nut stems. In case their firm- ness should abandon them at the ap- palling sight, a brother or other near relative is at hand to push them in and render them out of affection that cruel office. The first wife of the younger of the two princes, who was daughter to the king’s sister, asked her father whether, as she was extremely young and had been but three months married, she ought to devote herself on the funeral pile of her deceased husband. The father, less alive to the voice of nature