Along line of carts, like Isracl's going down to Ezypt, passed out of the palace yesterday, loaded with charred embers, logs, tiles, old iron, xazs, and other debris. Behind the bullocks drggaing them came as many ponies with bursting hampers on their backs, filled with ashes. 16 was the funeral procession of the Jate monarchs of this dynasty, whose ghosts and spirits were burned the other night. These remains are bound for Buddhist monastery outside of the East Gate, where they are to prayed over, and fed, and saar ficed to, wept for, and paid millions of cash, the hope of straightening out the national calamity that has befallen Corea by the "burning of the tablets and pictures of the ancestors.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.