Widow-burning, now virtually extinct in India, is said to exist still" in parts of Africa; widows were immolated on tho husband's funeral pyre.as a sign of virtue, and also to provide the dead man with attendants in the nest, world*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18089, 13 May 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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40Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18089, 13 May 1922, Page 2 (Supplement)
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