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UPS
424
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS, &c
Aug, 1
CHAPTER following on the other six their usual professions; jand they never
travel about as vagabonds making a noise with bells and conchs.
6. The Lacks burn their dead, who ought to be accompanied oil the
pile by their widows; but this custom has become obsolete.
Widows are not permitted to become concubines of the kind called
Cutigas, nor are the men allowed to keep those called Hadras. A
girl, after ten years of age, is no longer marriageable. The men
may take as many wives as they can procure, but can only divorce
them for adultery. Persons of this cast drink no spirituous liquors;
and, as is usual in Bengal, eat no animal food, except that which has
been offered as a sacrifice*
END OF VOL, I
Printed by W. Bulmer and Co,
Cleveland-row, St. James's,
UPS
424
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS, &c
Aug, 1
CHAPTER following on the other six their usual professions; jand they never
travel about as vagabonds making a noise with bells and conchs.
6. The Lacks burn their dead, who ought to be accompanied oil the
pile by their widows; but this custom has become obsolete.
Widows are not permitted to become concubines of the kind called
Cutigas, nor are the men allowed to keep those called Hadras. A
girl, after ten years of age, is no longer marriageable. The men
may take as many wives as they can procure, but can only divorce
them for adultery. Persons of this cast drink no spirituous liquors;
and, as is usual in Bengal, eat no animal food, except that which has
been offered as a sacrifice*
END OF VOL, I
Printed by W. Bulmer and Co,
Cleveland-row, St. James's,