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 most scrupulous attention was given in order that nothing might be awanting necessary for a palace, and these palaces were burned with great pomp, and it is thus that immense riches have been given to the flames from the foolish belief that it would serve the dead in the other world. However, the people who bear all these foolish expenses, and who die of famine, and who perhaps do not believe that they are necessary, murmur in secret and bear with much discontent a very grievous yoke; they dare not complain openly, for should a word of complaint reach the superior authorities, it would suffice to call down death upon those who uttered it!