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that ſhe cannot be ſeen by any body. A man of any conſequence, in India, does not ſtir out for a week after his nuptials, and would deem it diſhonourable to ſuffer his wife to appear in public: the indigence of the poorer kind of people precludes them from the obſervance of this Punctilio. The huſband's entire property after his deceaſe, comes into the poſſeſſion of his wife. It may be here obſerved, tthat the Hindoo, as well as the Mahometan, ſhudders at the idea of expoſing women to the public eye: they are held ſo ſacred in India, that even the ſoldier in the rage of ſlaughter will not only ſpare, but even protect them. The Haram is a ſanctuary againſt the
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