GHAZXPORE. 
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upon the earth. I was quickly restored to sense, hut 
already the devouring element had reduced the 
funeral pile to a heap of charred and smouldering 
timber. The assembled Brahmins strewed the ashes 
around, and with a trembling hand I assisted my 
father to gather the blackened bones of my beloved 
uncle and aunt, when having placed them in an 
earthen vessel we carried them to the Ganges, and 
with prayer and reverence committed them to the 
sacred stream. 
“ My mother died not many months after the sutti 
had taken place, having set her affections upon a 
future state of bliss with Lall Radha ; and my father 
did not many years survive her. Your slave married, 
and has been blessed with three sons, who are ser- 
vants to your noble countrymen, whom may God 
long preserve to distribute peace and justice among 
us ! I am quickly going down to the Ganges, and 
until that day of release shall arrive, I am content to 
live in this humble hut, and guard and decorate this 
arbour, for which God rewards me by occasional alms 
from the charitable.” 
I ordered my attendant to disburse from my 
treasury to Baba Kulloo the sum of eight annas 
(about ten pence), for which unexampled display 
of generosity my ears were refreshed with abundant 
streams of the most hyperbolical praise and blessing, 
so long as I continued within reach of the old man’s 
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voice. 
