Then they placed the strips of bark around the body, bound them with hickory withes, and over the rough surface the women made a little show of black cloth.
For the burial they could do no more than consign the body to one of the waves in the great billowy land sea about them.

They had no tombstone, nor were there even rocks to make a simple cairn.

He saw them bury her, and thought there was little to choose between hers and the grave of his father, whose body was being now carried noiselessly down in the bed of the river.

The general locality would be kept by landmarks, by the bearing of valley bends, headlands, or the fork and angles of constant streams.

But the spot itself would in a few weeks be lost.
When the last office had been performed, the prayer said, a psalm sung, and the black dirt thrown in, they waited by him in sympathy.