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110 that he cannot be een by any body. A man of any conequence, in India, does not tir out for a week after his nuptials, and would deem it dihonourable to uffer his wife to appear in public: the indigence of the poorer kind of people precludes them from the obervance of this Punctilio. The huband's entire property after his deceae, comes into the poeion of his wife. It may be here oberved, tthat the Hindoo, as well as the Mahometan, hudders at the idea of expoing women to the public eye: they are held o acred in India, that even the oldier in the rage of laughter will not only pare, but even protect them. The Haram is a anctuary againt the horrors