Chapter showing how the wife is burnt alive after the death of her husband

branches of coral,1 which things they place upon the body, and while it is burning all the instruments of the city are sounding. In like manner, fifteen or twenty men, dressed like devils, stand there and make great rejoicing. And his wife is always present, making most exceedingly great lamentations, and no other woman. And this is done at one or two o’ clock of the night.2