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BURIAL OF A MISSIONARY. 297
friends of Dr. Dodge had asked permission of the
Greeks to lay his body for a little while in their bu-
rying-ground ; and negotiating with the dragoman
of the convent, they thought that permission had
been granted ; but while they were in the act of per-
forming the funeral service, a messenger came in
to tell them that the grave had been filled up.
They protracted the service till the delay excited
the attention of his unhappy widow, and they were
obliged to tell her that they had no place where
they could lay the head of her young husband. A
reluctant permission was at length granted, and
they buried him by the light of torches; and al-
though there had been no graves in that part of
the ground before, the Greeks had buried all
around, to prevent any application for permission
to lay by his side the body of another heretic.
VOL. II.—C C
friends of Dr. Dodge had asked permission of the
Greeks to lay his body for a little while in their bu-
rying-ground ; and negotiating with the dragoman
of the convent, they thought that permission had
been granted ; but while they were in the act of per-
forming the funeral service, a messenger came in
to tell them that the grave had been filled up.
They protracted the service till the delay excited
the attention of his unhappy widow, and they were
obliged to tell her that they had no place where
they could lay the head of her young husband. A
reluctant permission was at length granted, and
they buried him by the light of torches; and al-
though there had been no graves in that part of
the ground before, the Greeks had buried all
around, to prevent any application for permission
to lay by his side the body of another heretic.
VOL. II.—C C