Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    but this practice, as well as most of the customs just described, have become less general and less sacred since the settlement of Europeans in the island : they are still, however, far from being entirely eradicated ; the offerings, pray- ers and sacrifices are only performed with more caution and secrecy. The difficulties experienced by the French voyagers, Messrs. Peron and Lesueur, in getting the skeleton of a crocodile which they had killed carried by Ma- lays on hand-barrows, and the fear of touching these relics of an. animal which they hold sacred manifested by those people, prove that they still entertain the same silly respect as ever for that destructive quadruped: and the fol-