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after 



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againft the bunch of red feathers and repeats his prayers, 

 which he depofits on the grave fome coconut-leaves tv^ifled Into 

 various fliapes and knots during his prayer, and the relations 

 likewife leave a few provifions^ 



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Inflead of a man, I faw at 0-Taha a woman wear the heva- 



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drefs ; a ceremonious dance was performed at the fame place, and 



the nearefl relations appeared well dreiTed with prcfents of cloth for 



the drummers and muficians. From all the ceremonies of the 

 burial it appears, that the people at Taheitee and its neighbour- 

 hood, have an idea of a feparate flate, in which the Teehee or foul 



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lives. 



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bones into the water, and gives the Ikull to the relations of the deceafed, who carry it 



refpedfully home, 5, Some 



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6, Others are hurled' 



under ground. The mode of burial is fixed and determined upon by the prieft according to 

 the hour in which a pcrfon dies, as each time requires a different way of burying, Thcfe 

 <:ircumflances are confirmed by Dr. P. S. Pallas^ T. R. S, in his Trawls through Jeveral 



of the Rujpi 



vol, i, p*362, 363. and partly 



F, R. S, 



of the Kingdom of 



lof 



John Stewart^ Efq. 

 nf^ vol. Ixvli. pi. ii. 



p, 478. In tlic ifland of Formofa or Tayovan the inhabitants keep the corpfes of their 



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tlcceafed in their houfes on an elevated ft.age, and put fire under them in order to dry them, 



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aftet the ninth day they wrap the body in mats and cloth, and expofe them on a ftill higher 

 iliiae • after the body has been thus kept during three years the bones are buryed. Relation 



IJIaud of Formof 



The people in Corea do not bury the remains of 



their deceafed friends till after three yqars are clapfcd 



Hifl. of 



The 



Indians upon the liver Oronoko fuffer the corpfes of their chiefs to putrefy and when the 

 flefli IS decayed they drcfs the ikeleton with jewels of gold and ornaments of feathers, and 



fafpend it in a hut. 



of Sir Wall 



<?dit. 



598. 



Jppollonius Rhodius Jrgcnautiu lib. iii. p* 207 



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liiilorias lib, iv. ch, i. mention that the Colchl few the corpfe of their deceafed relations ia 



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