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Reported Mass Burial Sacrifice by King of Burmah

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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, April 15, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 16

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Reported Mass Burial Sacrifice by King of Burmah

A dispatch from Rangoon via London reports that seven hundred persons,—men, women, boys, girls, priests, and foreigners—have been buried alive by the king of Burmah as a sacrifice for his restoration to health. The panic in Mandalay is frightful, and hundreds are leaving the city. The king’s disease is said to be leprosy.