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1838. Torches were seen glowing in the range of whitewashed huts, and a bush-light was flaming near Jaque’s habitation, which was so brilliant that I perceived the coffin and thr groups gathering round it. [Note.] A fire of light wood kindled on a small mound of earth.—Caroline Gilman, ‘Recollections of a Southern Matron,’ p. 82.
