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DEAN MAHOMET.
ſprinles the grave with holy water, and ſpreads a large white ſheet over it. Four days after the funeral, the relatives entertain their neighbours and a multitude of poor people with unlimited hoſpitality, who, in gratitude for their munificence, offer up their united petitions to Heaven for the kinſmam of their benefactors.
People of condition have grand monuments erected to their memory, and lamps lighting at their tombs throughout the year: their houſes alſo, oh certain feſtivals, are magnificently illuminated in remembrance of them. The poorer natives perform this ceremony at the grave and their own habitaiions,
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