IN THE ISLAND OF BALI; 



pointed out to ^tfie Utter the facer dotal cord which he WOra 1 bufe 

 nature of it was altogether inconiprehenlible to them*^ 



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' 'Of all the cuftoms which certify the effential Hinduifm bi Bali, there 

 is none of fo decided-and unequivocal a chara£ler, as the facrifice o%> 

 the woman on the funeral pile of her lord. The following is a ihort, 



.account of the ceremony as pradifed on Bali* When a wife offers.^ 

 her felf the facrifice is termed Satyai'iiit be a concubine, flavcj or othei^ 

 domellic, it is called Beta. A woman of any caft may facrifice he^-* 

 jfelf in this manner ? but it is moH frequent with the Satriya and Wifiya^^ 

 Jk very feidom happens that a woman of -the iervilp elafe thus facrificea 

 Wrfeif 5 -and wkat i^, flill mors ej^raordinajry a woman oi^ the faceidQl^l 

 ,«jfder never ..do.es. 



In the vicmity-tjfri^vefy town or large viMage, a placeilslot^afidefoc 



this foiemnity. It is the fame where the comnaon dead are burnt. On 

 our march to the palace of the Raja, which is two miles from the IhorCg 

 ^'e faw a place of this kind where many vidims had perifhed. In a pit 

 which was there, there were flili fomcafhes, the reli6s of the lall fa« 

 crifice. The Raja informed me that Captain Saver of the rioyaLnavyj 

 land fomt; of his ofBcers were prefent three years ago, when two young 

 ;females facrificed themfelves at this very place, Inihe mannerof per- 

 forming .the jcejemony, I could no|: |ind th^t the.r.^ w^ any tiling which 

 cdiifqred ,froin i\\^ pra^lice Jn t]is fouthern parts qi Indiat 



Perhaps the mofl remarkable circumftanc^j ccnnpvi^d ^\[ith tjiefe 

 ffacrifkes, is the great number of women who on partici^l^r, pppafipns 

 offer themfelves. The Raja fiated that when his' father's ^body was 

 burnt,' the incredible number of 74 women facrificed themfelves with 

 it. 1 know 'fro Ti the authority ofpecfons who were prefent, that 2 



