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^n Egyptian pyramid, with large fteps ; fometimes this pyramid 



imakes one of the fides of an area, walled in with fquare ftones and 



•paved with flat ftones : the pyramid is not fblid, but the infide is 



filled with fmaller fragments of coral ftones. Sometimes there 



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.are one or more fheds landing at a little diflance from the marai, 



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for the reception of fuch people. as attend themarai on account of 

 praying or perforrning the faneral rites of their relations. 



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^times there are fpars -fixed in the ground and joined by crofs beams 



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in a firm frame at a fmall diftance from the marai, and likdwife 



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fmall flages raifed on pillars of various heights and dimenfion 

 ftages are called Whattas, 21 



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ded for the 



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the hogs, dogs, fowls and fruits, which the natives offer to their 



gods. 







The large frame is fometimes thirty feet high, and about 



twenty or more wide, and often entirely covered vv^ith bananas 



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hung up for the gods with, many garlands of flowers, and orna- 

 mented with green branches. * Laflly, near the marais are twenty 

 or thirty fingle pieces of wood fixed into the ground, carved all 



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over on one fide with figures about eighteen inches long, rudely 

 reppefenting a man and a woman alternately, fo that often more 



ihacL fifteen or twenty figures may be counted on one piece of wood, 



called 



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^ The plants employed for tliat.purpofe are chiefly the PGoraoo or Eposa-iardcroo or Cratasva 



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the E-^otoo Melaftoma malabathrica, and the J^a-^^aidai or Piper latifolium. 



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