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Rh but once in the year, for a hort pace of time. After the death of a huband, his wife puts on no mourning, and'dirobing herelf of all the ornaments of dres and jewels, wears only plain white mulin. In the middle walk of life, the widow enjoy's the ole property, which, making ome reerve for herelf, he generally divides in a very equitable manner, among her children: in more elevated ituations, the on ucceeds his father in rank or employment.

The Mahometans are trict adherents to the tenets of their religion, which does not, by any means, conit in that enthuiatic veneration for Mahemet o generally conceived: it coniders