The dogs barked outrageously; but at last above their din floated, as before, the high wailing cries.

A heaping cairn of round-bellied, rosy-pink earthen jars came steering past, poled by a naked statue of new copper, who balanced precariously on the edge of his hidden raft.

No sound came from him; nor from the funeral barge which floated next, where still figures in white robes guarded the vermilion drapery of a bier, decked with vivid green boughs.

All these were silent.
"No, above!" cried Rudolph, pointing.
After the mourners' barge, at some distance, came hurrying a boat crowded with shining yellow bodies and dull blue jackets.

Long bamboo poles plied bumping along her gunwale, sticking into the air all about her, many and loose and incoordinate, like the ribs of an unfinished basket.