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Rh departed pirit, and twenty-four hours after the deceae of the peron, on account of the exceive heat of the climate, the body is wrapeed up in mulin, and carried towards the grave, near which it is laid down, before it is interred: all the people who attend the funeral knee in a direct line beide it, imploring the great Alla to give the oul eternal ret it is then conigned to the ilent cene of interment, and the relations throw a little clay on it, after which it is covered. The Mulna conecrates a quantity of thin cakes, which he ditributes in broken pieces among the people, who hare them with each other and join in prayer, while the eldet on of the deceed prinkles