South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
 -  If the widow refuses thus to sacrifice herself, she would be
ever afterwards esteemed an evil woman, hated of all - Page 180
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If The Widow Refuses Thus To Sacrifice Herself, She Would Be Ever Afterwards Esteemed An Evil Woman, Hated Of All Men, And Even In Danger Of Being Slain By Her Own And Her Husband's Kindred.

The king is generally present at these ceremonies, which are not used at the death of ordinary people, but only for kings, priests, and great men.

Justice in strictly administered in this country. Whoever kills a man is adjudged to die as at Calicut. Proof of giving or receiving is taken by writings or by witnesses, the governor of the city being chief judge. If any merchant stranger die there without children, all his goods fall to the king. When the king dies, he is succeeded in the throne by his children. The children of the natives divide equally among them all the possessions of their father. When any Mahometan merchant dies, their bodies are embalmed with many sweet spices and gums, and being placed in wooden coffins, they are buried with their faces towards Mecca. In their manner of writing they use parchment as we do, and not the leaves of trees as at Calicut. Their vessels are a kind of shallow brigantines or barks with flat bottoms, which draw very little water. Some also use foists having _double foreparts_[87], and two masts, but these have no decks. They have also some vessels of large burden, even carrying a thousand tons, in which they have several boats, and these are used when they go to Malacca for spices.

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