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138 followed, with tams and torches lighting; colours flying, and various intruments of muic, on which they played the melt olemn airs. The tenth day this paper tructure, which in the Indian dialect, is termed Gouwarrah, is carried to the burial ground of their uppoed aints or holy men, and thrown into a large tank, which concludes the ceremony.

The Mahometans keep a trict lent once in the year, in the month Ramzaun, for a pace of thirty two days: during this time, they never sleep on a bed, nor cohabit with their wives, and live only on rice and vegetables: they alo abtain from off their uual enjoyments of chewing