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128 prinles the grave with holy water, and preads a large white heet over it. Four days after the funeral, the relatives entertain their neighbours and a multitude of poor people with unlimited hopitality, who, in gratitude for their munificence, offer up their united petitions to Heaven for the kinmam of their benefactors.

People of condition have grand monuments erected to their memory, and lamps lighting at their tombs throughout the year: their houes alo, oh certain fetivals, are magnificently illuminated in remembrance of them. The poorer natives perform this ceremony at the grave and their own habitaiions, but