South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
 -  Also when the baser sort of people die, I have seen the
dead husband carried to the place of sepulchre - Page 260
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Also When The Baser Sort Of People Die, I Have Seen The Dead Husband Carried To The Place Of Sepulchre,

Where he is placed upright; then cometh his widow, and, placing herself on her knees before him, she clasps her

Arms about his neck, till the masons have built a wall around both as high us their necks. Then a person from behind strangles the widow, and the workmen finish the building over their heads, and thus they remain immured in one tomb. Inquiring the reason of this barbarous custom, I was told that this law had been established in ancient times as a provision against the slaughters which the women were in use to make of their husbands, poisoning them on every slight cause of displeasure; but that since the promulgation of this law they have been more faithful to their husbands, reckoning their lives as dear to them as their own, because after the death of their husband their own is sure soon to follow. There are many other abominable customs among these people, but of which I have no desire to write.

In consideration of the injury done to Bijanagur by the four Mahometan kings, the king with his court removed from that city in 1567, and went to dwell in a castle named _Penegonde_, eight days journey inland from Bijanagur. Six days journey from Bijanagur is the place where diamonds are got[136]. I was not there, but was told that it is a great place encompassed by a wall, and that the ground within is sold to the adventurers at so much per square measure, and that they are even limited as to the depth they may dig.

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