338 OSBECK'S VOYAGE. 



This plant likewife grows in the rice fields, 

 in the Danifi ifland. It may ferve now as a 

 monument of the difcoverer Mr. Torccn, and 

 remind his friends of their lofs. 



We met a Cbinefe burial. We were then 

 fufficiently protected. There were wooden 

 idols in the proceflion. Firil and foremoft 

 went two Chinefe, with little banners; next 

 were the pipers and other muficians, who 

 fometimes founded their inftruments. Behind 

 thefe, the idol, a gilt human figure, was car- 

 ried in a palankin ; it was followed by the 

 coffin, which was carried on a pole of bam- 

 boo. The mourners had white handkerchiefs 

 about their heads. When they have let the 

 coffin down into the grave, they lay a couple 

 of (tones upon it, and befides that, for the 

 fubfiftence of the dead, and for the reconcilia- 

 tion of the idol, they put rice, fruit, tea, 

 money, &c. by him. At night they likewife 

 perform all forts of muiick in the boats, 

 and row up and down the river in them. 



Wives and husbaiwjs only mourn 49 days, 

 or ieven weeks, for each other. No Cbinefe, 

 and much lefs a foreigner, can be buried in 



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