Once again, the foreign physician found himself with a ringside seat to a Punjabi state funeral. Describing the event curtly in his memoirs, Honigberger said: ‘Three of his wives were burnt with him; and I was present at that horrid, yet remarkable spectacle’.21 Eleven slave girls also burned to death that day, but Honigberger, perhaps inured to the horror of sati now, failed even to mention them.
