As a last resource, a fowl is often killed and placed, warm and bleeding, on the patient's feet.

This being of no avail, and death having taken place, the wife is led from the apartment, and the preparations for interment are commenced.

Wet cotton-wool is stuffed into the mouth, nose, and ears of the corpse, while all present witness aloud that the dead man was a good and true Mohammedan.

The body is laid out, a cup of water is placed at its head, and a moollah, ascending to the roof of the house, reads in a shrill nasal tone verses from the Koran.

The professional mourners then arrive, and night or day is made hideous with their cries, while the "washers of the dead" proceed with their work.