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lowing day. That day neither party obtained the victory, upon which 

 viceroy issued an order to stop the contests, and to burn the Telapoy 

 the next day s which was accordingly done. 



That day the corpse was burnt in a temporary house, erected for that 

 purpose, in the shape of a KiritH, "' with 'a stage in it upon which the coffin 

 was set to be burnt This was performed with small rockets, fixed upon 

 ropes with rings of rattan, so as to slide along them, from the top of a hill, 

 to the coffin, which was placed on the top of another hill. The rockets 

 being discharged, slided along the ropes, over the intermediate valley, to 

 the coffin, which was set on fire by them, and, with its contents, quickly 

 consumed,, 



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