<bq author="General Sir Charles Napier">You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.</bq> <hr> <ft>On the practice of “suttee”—the tradition of burning widows on the funeral pyres of their husbands.</ft>