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Garrows, the ycungeil daughter is always heirefs, and if there be any other 

 children, who were born before her, they would gQt nothing on the death of 

 the Booneah : what is more ftrange, if Buglun were to die, Lungree would 

 marry one of his brothers ; and, if all his brothers were dead, j£he would then 

 marry the father ; and, if the father afterwards fhould prove too old, file 

 would pat hini-afide, and take any one elfe, whom me might choofe. 



The dead are Kept for four days, burnt on a pile of wood in a Dingf 

 ©r fmali boat, placed on the top of the pile, and the allies art put mi o 

 & hole dug exaclly where the fire was, covered with a fmall thatch building 

 and furrounded with a railing : a lamp is burnt within the building every 

 night, for the fpace of a month or more;, the wearing apparel of the 

 deceafed is hung on pole? fixed at each corner of the railing, which ? after 

 a certain time (from iix weeks to two months) are broken, and then 1 

 allowed to hang downwards till they fall to pieces:- they burn their 

 dead within fix or eight yards of their Cbaungs, and the ceremony is per- 

 formed at exaftly twelve o'clock at night j the pile is lighted by the 

 neareft relation r after this they feaft, make merry, dance and- ting, and get 

 drunk. This is however the ceremony to a common Gar row. If it be a- ! 

 peifon of rank, the pile is decorated with cloth and flowers, and a bull >ck 

 facrificed on the occafion, and the head of the bullae! Is alfo burnt with^ 

 the corps : if it be an upper hill Booneah, of common rank, the head of 

 one of his Haves would be cut off, and burnt with him ; and, if it happen 

 to be one of the firfl rank Booneahs,.^ large body of his flaves fally out of 

 the hills, and feize a Hindu, whole head they cut off and burn with their 

 chief. The railed graves of Boontahs are decorated with images of animals 

 placed near the graves, and the railing is often ornamented with freih How- 

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