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Title: Notices of the proceedings at the meetings of the members of the Royal Institution of Great Britain with abstracts of the discourses
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Royal Institution of Great Britain
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Publisher: London : William Clowes and Sons
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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with the quaint originality of thispeople, and ornamented with all the fulness of its fancy. The twocoffins, prescribed by ancient traditions, rest on pedestals in the shadowof high baldachinos. Behind the coffin walks a person wrapped insackcloth, suggestive of the cloth worn over their uniforms by mem-bers of the Society of Misericordia in Italy. The catafalques andcoffins are carried on their shoulders by thirty-two mourners, proceed-ing slowly and rhythmically. But the pageant is not yet at an end. On a number of sedan-chairs are heaped up the personal belongings of the defunct. Hisclothes, household furniture, horses and cows—all follow him so thatthey may be consumed as a burnt-offering by his graveside; all ineffigy, for they are but of paper. It is in such cheap edition that theancient traditions are being preserved by the more practical progenyof the present day. The silver coins, thrown by the riding weepersamongst the crowd, are likewise make-believe, representing nothing
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Ferry Boat. on First Impressions of Seoul. 509 but small discs of paper. One sedan-chair follows another; hosts ofcarriers and servants accompany the members of the family. Thereis the whole tribe; a whole brigade is riding behind the gabled cata-falque. All are covered with sackcloth, even the mendicant is dressedin white—the whole procession is white. And as they turn round ontop of the hill the effect of the picture is unique. The weepingwomen, the monsters, the mourners and attendants, the giganticcatafalques and the immense crowd were one of the strangest sightsI ever contemplated. The furled banners, dangling texts, open sun-shades, lanterns with dim lights in the darkness of the night formedthe quaintest setting. The light of torches, the burning fascicles ofbulrushes and straw are tinting in a vibrating red the long, whiteand ghostly procession. The beating of drums, the droning of bag-pipes furnish the music, and the weeping women the proper chorus;this strange funeral, in

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