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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    Jers. None of those marks of respect, of which all the other nations of the east are so lavish towards their sovereigns, are paid to them. In a few gold orna- ments of little value and a gown of printed cotton, which they put on only when they go abroad in state or receive strangers, consists all that distinguishes them from their subjects. Their resi- dences, situated in the centre of villa- ges, are rather more spacious and better built, but just as destitute of ornament as any others ; and herds of buffaloes, arms and iron utensils constitute all their wealth. - Those rajahs, however, who are not dependent on the Europeans possess greater authority. The subjects of se-