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1922.] Father A. Monserrate, S.J., on Salsete, ete. 361 
echar en el rio Ganges, como 
trazen cada afio a todas las 
grande deuocion.! 
Quando se va a quemar leua 
en la mafio vn limon o vn 
peine vy dize q’, p* q’ vea® q’ 
va a gozar de la otra vida, q’ 
despues de muerta y quemada 
hallaron el limon fresco y el 
es - cierto, 
el demonio 
no p* as leuar al infierno mas 
de presa 
Si Ja muger es vieja y tiene 
hijos * y no se quiere quemar, 
va se a los pies de su marido 
muerto, y alli se rapa, y se 
despoja de todas sus joias p® 
hunca mas gozar de cosa de 
pasat’po deste ERED Si so- 
lam® eran desposados, que- 
dando ella praia a se lue- 
go de rapar, y no a de vestir 
mas paiio lauado ni poner joia 
ningunas ni ver regozijos. 
Son todos estos gentiles da- 
dos a supersticiones y ague- 
tos. Tien@ grande veneracion 
a las ma de capelo, y a 
estas pintan en sus pagodes. 
Nada an de comencar sin res- 
puesta del ministro del pago- 

1 Later addition. 2 Vean (?) 
3 First : filhos. 
the Ganges and throw them 
- into the river; indeed, every 
year, they carry to the Ganges 
the ashes of all burnt corpses, 
the pilgrimage to that river 
being one of great devotion. 
When the wife goes to burn 
herself. she carries in her hand 
a lemon or a comb, and she 
says that, in order that they 
may see that she goes to en- 
joy the next life, they will, 
after she is dead and burnt, 
find the lemon fresh and the 
re 
times uses this trick to take 
them [these women] to hell 
the sooner 
If the woman is old and has 
children and does not wish to 
burn herself. she goes to the 
feet of her dead husband, 
sbaves herself there, ei di- 
oil wh ust main. 
married, shaves herself, aid 
she must never aga ear 
main a widow, and may 
go to any foativities or w it- 
ness rejoicings. 
All these gentiles are much 
itions and 
e- 
ave much V 
odes. They must aos 
nothing without an answer 
from the minister of the pago- 
: 
| Cobra de capello, Naja tripu- 
dians. 
