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Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat

Note † — Chapter XIX

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[^] One of the sons of the wang-na watches at the temple, near the funeral pile, night and day, till the body is consumed; the ashes of the consumed body are then thrown into the river with many ceremonies; and the unconsumed bones are then delivered to the priests, and made into household gods.

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