The magistrate put out a special proclamation ordering the people to be pence= able and orderly, as the body was to be borne through the city, a privilege allowed only to the very highesband mos honoured officials. The coridge started about 9 o'clock, entered the West Gate, proceeded to the home of the Into deceased, and thence through the city, passing out of the East Gate and nround towards the North toa temporary vault, It was viewed by thousands of people and along the route sacrificial food was set out and fire-crackers exploded in front of many houses. The cortege here differed in some respects from that seen in Shanghai, The paper were preceded by the fabulous unicorn, the symbol of y6olness and benevolence; behind the gi nuts came three other paper figures to act as "servants" in the spirit world; the ranks and titles of the deceased were inscribed on silk and borne on covered frame: an ornamented box handsome eannpy coven official hat with di beneath; Buddhi-t and Taoist priests in full regalia with their tom-toms and usual noise-making toys; the nephew, as chief mourner, walked in the procession, his person, except his feet, being concealed from view by a rectangular arrangement of white clo h carried by five men; the coffin, hume by thirty-iwo men, was covered with handsome satin palis, and had a dragon on top; finally, forty sedan chairs, many of them draped in white and
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