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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    individuals of the aboriginal race of Timor. Flinders nevertheless asserts that they are black but have not woolly hair; and in this latter particular his description disagrees with that just given on the authority of the French naturalist, Leschenault. We have reason to believe, that it is to the older writers that we must look for more authentic information respect- ing the original inhabitants of Timor. When Dampier touched at the island in 1700, the Mahometan religion was unknown there. That accurate ob- server tells us that the islanders of Timor are of the middle stature, well made, clean-limbed, with long faces, black hair, and a very dark skin. They