The others, the first harvest of this modern Golgotha, might have been Chinese coolies.

When the sailor's fascinated vision could register details he distinguished yokes, baskets, odd-looking spades and picks strewed amidst the bones.

The animals were all of one type, small, lanky, with long pointed skulls.

At last he spied a withered hoof.

They were pigs.
Over all lay a thick coating of fine sand, deposited from the eddying winds that could never reach the silent depths.