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they butcher Young and old without distinction of age or sex. An aggressor, if he is reputed brave although not supported by number, is often permitted to escape retaliation. They place their dead upon scaffolds, entombed with wood along with all the property of the Deceased. The Relations cut, bite, and scarify the flesh of the body in a shocking manner, and destroy all the occasional property (those nearly related, the most distant affinity only sacrifice a part) without reserving the principle Necessaries of life in order to make a parade of their sorrow for the Deceased, which in this Country is not always free from Ostentation. The female sex related to the deceased will bewail and howl him for more than a Year every morning at dawn of day, and again as the sun goes down.

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