| James Cordiner - 1807 - 540 pages
...mourners in black gowns, all the European gentlemen of the settlement, and a crowd of natives. The body was deposited in the family vault, by the side of that of his wife, whose skeleton was seen through a glass in the cover of the coffin. No burial service was used... | |
| Old Sailor - 1839 - 220 pages
...wasdaily more and -fix years ^mughter, iursuits, nded by blessings, when his i grave, unsplendid forat the expiration of a fortnight he breathed his last...memorial of the mutability of human greatness, and an humbling lessen on the uncertainty of existence. Thus, in a short time, the daughter of Sir Phelim... | |
| Ceylon. Government Archivist, Richard Gerald Anthonisz - 1907 - 330 pages
...mourners in black gowns, all the European gentlemen of the settlement, and a crowd of natives. The body was deposited in the family vault, by the side of that of his wife, whose skeleton was seen through a glass in the cover of the coffin. No burial service was used... | |
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