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AN ARABIC ACCOUNT OF SUTTEE
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the infidel Hindus and Brahmans, with drums, trumpets, and men, following her, both Moslems and Infidels, for mere pastime. The fire had been already kindled, and into it they cast the dead husband.

HINDU WOMEN.

The wife then threw herself upon him, and both were entirely burnt. A woman's burning herself with her husband, however, is not considered as absolutely necessary among them, but it is encouraged; and when a woman burns herself with her husband, her family is considered as being ennobled, and is supposed to be worthy of

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