...ceremonies are performed. The body is washed, anointed, and painted. Then the women lament the loss with hideous howlings, intermixed with songs, which celebrate the great actions of the deceased and his ancestors. The men mourn also, though in a less extravagant manner. The whole village is present...

...performed. The body is washed, anointed, and painted. Then the women lament the loss with hideous howiings, intermixed with songs, which celebrate the great actions of the deceased and his ancestors. The men mourn also, though in a less extravagant manner. The whole village is present...

...always discharged with the greatest solemnity. The dead body is washed, anointed, and painted, go as in some measure to abate the horrors of death. Then...his ancestors. The men mourn in a less extravagant * The towns are small, and, except the affairs of war or state, they have no business to employ them,...

...always discharged with the greatest solemnity. The dead body is washed, anointed, and painted, so as in some measure to abate the horrors of death. Then...loss with the most bitter cries, and the most hideous howl& ings, intermixed with songs, which celebrate the great actions of the deceased, and those of...

...tenderness The author of the Eurofiean Settlements in America says, the women lament the loss with bitter cries, and the most hideous howlings, intermixed...ancestors. The men mourn in a less extravagant Manner: Eurofiean Settlements in America, vol. ip 183. SECTION XXVIII. (a) We afC now1 come to what may be...

...always discharged wiih the greatest solemnity. The dead body is -washed, anointed, and painted, so as in some measure to abate the horrors of death. Then...most hideous howlings, intermixed with songs, which oelebrate the great actions of the deceased, and those of his ancestors. The men mourn in a less extravagant...

...Settlements in America says, the women lament the loss with hitter cries, and the most hideous bowlings, intermixed with songs, which celebrate the great actions...ancestors. The men mourn in a less extravagant manner. European Settlements in America, vol. ip 183. SECTION XXVIII. (a) We are now come to what may be called...

...hideous bowlings, intermixed wlthBongs,whlch celebrate the great actions performed by the deceased and his ancestors. The men mourn in a less extravagant manner. The whole village is present •t the interment, and the corpse ifl habited in the most sumptuous ornaments. Close to...

...107 bowlings, intermixed with songs,which celebrate the great actions performed by the deceased and his ancestors. The men mourn in a less extravagant manner. The whole village is present at the interment, and the corpse is habited in the most sumptuous ornaments. Close to the...

...sorrow; the principal are the washing, anointing, and painting the body: the women lament the loss with hideous howlings, intermixed with songs, which celebrate the great actions of the deceased and his ancestors; the men mourn with more moderation. The whole villnge is present at the interment, and...