IMMOLATION.
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The following account of burying woman a
live with her deceased husband, is from the Cal
cutta Gazette, 9th July last


." hole beng dug for the purpose, about 8
or lO feet deep, and } in diameter, the bodies
were placed upright therein upon which their
relations threw IN the earth, and the eldest son,
about ~ years OF age, dancing over the bodies
in the hole, and treading the earth down as it
was thrown in, until it came above the heads,
when general shout closed the monstrous and
horrid ceremony. No complaint or cry vas ut
tered by the patient sufferer. The above shock
ing instance OF the superstition and deprayity,
took place about 10 miles from Calcutta, and ID
the same place, during the preceding year, 26
widows were burnt alive with their deceased
husbands.