GANGETIC HINDOOS TAN. 369 



The women are exceffively ugly, fquat and fliort, and flat Women. 

 faced like the men. In their drefs their bodies are concealed, 

 and it covers great part of their thighs. 



These people may be deemed to be favage, chiefly in their 

 diet, eating dogs, frogs, fnakes, and the blood of all animals. 

 The lafl: is baked over a flow fire, in hollow green bamboos, till 

 it becomes of a green nafty color : they drink to excefs of a 

 liquor prepared from rice, but they have various other ftrong 

 extrads. 



Their houfes are from thirty to a hundred and fifty feet Houses. 

 long, raifed three or four feet from the ground ; the breadth 

 from ten to fifty, and are roofed and thatched. Bugs, the fame 

 as the Engl[/hf fwarm there, and are dreadful pells. 



Their marriages are attended with facrifices ; the vidlims a Marriages. 

 cock and hen. From the appearances after the adl of killing 

 them, prefages are drawn of the happinefs or unhappinefs of 

 the wedded pair. 



The dead are kept four days, then burnt in a fmall boat Burials. 

 placed on the funeral pile, and the aflies put into a fmall hole 

 jufl: under it, and covered with a fmall thatch building. This is 

 the ceremony of a common Garrow. 



If the perfoii is of rank, the pile is adorned with cloth and 

 flowers; a bullock is facrificed, and the head burnt with the . 

 deceafed. If he happens to be an upper-hill man of common 

 rank, the head of one of his flaves is cut off, and burnt with 

 him. If the upper-hill perfon is of high rank, a large body of 

 his flaves rufli from the hills, feize an Hindoo^ cut off his head, 

 and burn it with their chieftain. Their religion is faid to ap- 

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