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THE TRAVELS OF
followed, with ſtams and torches lighting; colours flying, and various inſtruments of muſic, on which they played the melt ſolemn airs. The tenth day this paper ſtructure, which in the Indian dialect, is termed Gouwarrah, is carried to the burial ground of their ſuppoſed ſaints or holy men, and thrown into a large tank, which concludes the ceremony.
The Mahometans keep a ſtrict lent once in the year, in the month Ramzaun, for a ſpace of thirty two days: during this time, they never sleep on a bed, nor cohabit with their wives, and live only on rice and vegetables: they alſo abſtain from off their uſual enjoyments of
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