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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    are devoutly washed during a month and seven days; after which, being placed in a convenient litter, they are conveyed in procession like the body to a place called /abee, where they are en- tirely burned: the ashes, carefully col- lected into urns, are cast into the sea, and thus terminates the cere- mony. When ‘a prince or princess. of the royal family dies, their women or slaves run round the body shrieking and howl- ing, and all eagerly solicit permission to die for their master or mistress. Next day the king intimates which of them he has made choice of. From that time they are daily at an early hour conveyed each in her vehicle, to