. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ^.From an An Indian Siiiki:. Frout an itiustration in licrniers Tjovels. No. 71 Death of a Hindoo Widow by Suttee, as described byMr. Thos. Twining in 1798. HAVING hired a small covered boat rowed by four men and steeredby a fifth, I left Calcutta on a visit to my friend Mr. Fletcher atSantipore, sixty miles higher up the Ganges. In the evening, asthe tide was running up, the boatmen pushed off into the stream and beganrowing. Soon after d
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . ^.From an An Indian Siiiki:. Frout an itiustration in licrniers Tjovels. No. 71 Death of a Hindoo Widow by Suttee, as described byMr. Thos. Twining in 1798. HAVING hired a small covered boat rowed by four men and steeredby a fifth, I left Calcutta on a visit to my friend Mr. Fletcher atSantipore, sixty miles higher up the Ganges. In the evening, asthe tide was running up, the boatmen pushed off into the stream and beganrowing. Soon after dark I crept under the low flat roof of my little boat andwent to sleep on a mattress that my servants had spread for me. Next morningI got up soon after daybreak and went to the fore part of the boat to enjoy thecoolness of the morning air. When I had been here about half an hour Inoticed a group of persons on the shore to our left, and on noticing themmore attentively discovered a pile of wood amongst them which suggested apainful solution of what was passing, and the opinion of my boatmen removedall doubt. It was certainly a Suttee, or the burning of a Hindo
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