z$ OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



Kosario, or a rofary, is neceffary to both 

 -fexes, to regulate the number of their prayers ; 

 it confifts of a fine filver or brafs chain, with 

 glafs or coral beads, or pearls, &c. and a 

 crois, from which hang two or three medals, 

 with the images of faints, which are much 

 valued. 



Crossing is performed with the thumb, 

 before and after church fervice, or prayers, 

 three times : viz. upon the forehead, mouth, 

 and bread, fo that. nothing may befall their 

 e\cs, mouth, or heart ; which is the more ne- 

 cdfam as the crois, according to their cate- 

 chifm, is the principal mark of a Chriitian. 



They marry very young ; and a boy of 

 fourteen years may marry a girl of twelve. 



Their burials differ from ours in many 

 things : before the cprpfe a crofs with lan- 

 thorns is carried ; as foon as it is depofited in 

 the grave, fome quick-lime is thrown in along 

 with it. In the evening a mafs is read for the 

 <kad, and the organ is played, though none 

 but the living are the better for it. Their bu- 

 fying'grounds are out of the town ; but they 



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