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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    make no scruple to eat pork and to drink spirituous liquors. Among other superstitious notions they believe in the existence of enchanters and sorcerers ; considering all foreigners with red hair as such and attributing to them ex- traordinary power. Many have fetishes or tutelary divinities, to which they address their prayers; a stone or a tree is, as most commonly among cer- - tain tribes in Africa, the object of this worship. Some weara kind of amulets, which, as they suppose, possess the power of preserving them from all mis- fortunes. One of these worn round, the neck by a Malay of the interior of the island consisted of several small cords to which were fastened three old pieces VOL, II. E