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branches tied together and stored many square conical gilded wooden trunks on pedestals. No [[underlined]] modern [[/underlined]] nor [[underlined]] scientific [[/underlined]] books. A few American Government or State publications dating many years ago. Took [[underlined]] pirogue over River [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] see the [[underlined]] Porcelan Watt. [[/underlined]] Huge tower and galleries all ornamented with porcelan cups, cemented on wall and guarded by [[underlined]] hideous looking statues [[/underlined]] of [[underlined]] spirits. [[/underlined]] Behind the pagode saw a new hard wood estade and pavilion erected above some altar looking table. Guide says this is for [[underlined]] a cremation to night. [[/underlined]] Things are being made ready. chairs and benches for visitors as
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for an open air concert. Trinde friends and family are assembling around the coffin which stands on exhibition. We are invited in and [[/strikethrough]] off [[/strikethrough]] invited to partake of dishes of fruit and sweets and food freely offered to friends or family.
The pavillon is screened by pretty and narrow curtains and what I took for an altar is a gilded [[underlined]] iron roaster on which the coffin will be burnt [[/underlined]] Underneath are square little logs with gilded ends which are [[underlined]] to start the fire. Coconut oil is poured over the corpse after [[/underlined]] the coffin is opened and the men who do the cremations do this very skilfully without setting fire to the wooden 

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