Citation - Maryland Gazette-Annapolis (Parks): 1729.03.04

MG-A(P.729.008
25 Feb-4 Mar 1729:11 (77)
From the St. James's Evening Post. Dec. 5.  [31 lines:
extract of a letter from an English merchant at Benegal,
describing the custom of burning widows alive with the
bodies of their deceased husbands]
The woman us'd to accompany the [page torn]
husband to the Ganges, where they ar [page torn]
she danced up to the Funeral Pile wit [page torn]
flutes, and hautboys, and plac'd h [page torn]
was sitting upon her bed . . .