overwhelmed neither with grief or love. And
when their Husbands are dead, all their care is where to get others,
which they cannot long be without.

[How they Bury.] It may not be unacceptable to relate how they burn
their Dead. As for Persons of inferior Quality, they are interred in
some convenient places in the Woods, there being no set places for
Burial, carried thither by two or three of their Friends, and Buried
without any more ado. They lay them on their Backs, with their heads
to the West and their feet to the East, as we do. Then those People
go and wash; for they are unclean by handling the Dead.

[How they Burn.] But Persons of greater quality are burned, and
that with Ceremony. When they are dead they lay them out, and put a
Cloth over their Privy Parts, and then wash the Body, by taking half
a dozen Pitchers of water, and pouring upon it. Then they cover him
with a Linnen cloth, and so carry him forth to burning. This is when
they burn the Body speedily. But otherwise, they cut down a Tree that
may be proper for their purpose, and hollow it, like a Hog-trough,
and put the Body being Embowelled and Embalmed into it, filled up
all about with Pepper. And so let it lay in the house, until it be
the King's Command to carry it out to the burning. For that they
dare not do without the King's order, if the Person deceased be a
Courtier. Sometimes the King gives no order in a great while, it may
be not at all. Therefore in such cases, that the Body may not take
up house-room, or annoy them, they dig an hole in the floar of their
house, and put hollowed tree and all in and cover it. If afterwards
the King commands to burn the Body, they take it up again in obedience
to the King, otherwise there it lyes.

Their order for burning is thus. If the Body be not thus put into
a Trough or hollowed Tree, it is laid upon one of his Bedsteds,
which is a great honour among them. This Bedsted with the Body on
it, or hollowed Tree with the Body in it, is fastned with Poles,
and carried upon Mens Shoulders unto the place of Burning: which is
some eminent place in the Fields or High ways, or where else they
please. There they lay it upon a Pile of Wood some two or three foot
high. Then they pile up more Wood upon the Corps, lying thus on the
Bedsted, or in the Trough. Over all they have a kind of Canopy built,
if he be a Person of very high Quality covered at top, hung about
with painted Cloth, and bunches of Coker-nuts, and gre