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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    pens that a woman of the servile class thus devotes herself, and one of the sa- cred order never does. The rajah of Blelling informed Mr. Crawfurd that when the body of his father was burned, seventy-four women sacrificed them, selves with it; and in 1813 twenty wo- men devoted themselves to death on the funeral pile of another prince of the same family. The Hindoos of Bali, like those of India, burn the bodies of their dead, but they differ from the latter in this point, that they keep a corpse a great length of time before they commit it to the flames. The budies of persons of the lowest condition are usually kept for several weeks, and those of persons