DEAD. The remains of the several mces in South-Eastern Asia are variously disposed of. One of the most ancient of the races, the Parsee or Guebre, the followers of Zertusht or &roaster, expose their dead on a platform in a circular tower. The Buddhist Tibetans allow the dead to be dragged in an unseeinly manner to a distance, and then exposed. The dead of the Buddhist Burmese of rank, particularly of the religious Phoungye monk, is laid in honey for a year, and then conveyed with much seeming rejoicing to the burning place, and burned amidst fire works. The Chinese revere the dead, and make pilgrimages to their ancestors' graves. Their dead are placed in coffins made of great logs of wood, rind lodged in chambers above ground in the inauner of the ancient Jews. Some of these log coffins aro costly, and it is usual for the rich Chinese to keep their coffins ready for their own use. The Saiva Hindu, the Jangain or Lingadari, the Pariah and non-Aryan races, and the five artisan classes of India, all inter their dead with their faces to the north. The Lingadari artisan
dead are seated in the grave facing the north, and in some places are carried to the grave seated on a chair. The Vaishnava Hindu who die of ordinary diseases are burned on a funeral pyre; and it was not unusual amongst tile burning classes of the Rajputa and Hindus of the Mahratta country and Northern India, for their widows to immolate themselves alongside the bodies of their deceased husbands. Amongst the Balinese, the widow and slaves of the deceased great are burned along with the deceased. , But with the Vaishnava Hindu, unmarried persons, or such as , have died of smallpox or cholera, are buried. The Mahomedan dead are all buried, and visits are paid to their graves. Dr. Livingstone describes the practice of the Balonda of S. Africa t,o be, to abandon the spot where a. favourite wife has died.—Living stone, Travels. See Burial Ceremonies.