THE LATE KING OF COCHIN CHINA. 
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most scrupulous attention was given in order that nothing 
might he awanting necessary for a palace, and these palaces 
were burned with great pomp, and it is thus that immense 
riches have been given to the flames from the foolish belief 
that it would serve the dead in the other world. However, 
the people who bear all these foolish expenses, and who die ot 
famine, and who perhaps do not believe that, they are neces¬ 
sary, murmur in secret and bear with much discontent a very 
grievous yoke; they dare not %omplain openly, for should a 
word of complaint reach the superior authorities, it would 
suffice to call down death upon those who uttered it! 
