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immediately after which, Dermin ihrull him through- with' 

 a fwoid. They attempted afterwards to. burn the body, in 

 order to avoid the ill-will the fight of it muft occafion : In 

 tbis, however, they were prevented by the priefts of the 

 ifland and the neighbouring nobility, who took pofTeffion 

 of the body, wafhed it, and performed all the rites of fepuU 

 ture, then carried it in a kind of triumph,, with every marJc 

 of magnificence due to the burial of a king, interring it in 

 the fmall ifland of Mitraha, where lay the body of all his 

 anceftors, and where I h3.ve feen, the body of this king ftilt 

 entire. . 



Nor did the prince his fon, Tecia Haimanout, now king, 

 difcourage the people in the refpeA they voluntarily paid 

 to his father. . On the contrary, that parricide himfelf fliew*. 

 ed every outward mark of duty, to the which inwardly his> 

 heart had been long a ftrangen 



PoNCET, who faw this king, gives this character of him : 

 He fays he was a man very fond of war, but averfe to the 

 Ihedding of blood. However this may appear a contradic- 

 tion, or faid for the fake of the antithefis, it really was the 

 true chara(5ter of this prince, who, fond of war, and in tlie 

 perpetual career of victory, did, by pufliing his conquefts as • 

 f?j as they could go, inevitably occafion the fpilling of much 

 blood. Yet, when his army was not in the field, though he 

 dete(5tcd a multitude of confpii'acies among priefts and other 

 people at home, whofe lives in confequence were forfeited 

 to the law, he very rarely, either from his own motives, or 

 the perfuafion of others, could be induced to inflidl capital i 

 p\uiilbnie»ts though often ftrongly provoked to it. 



