The corpse lay in a wooden box without a lid, a coarse blanket had been spread over it, and four men carried the coffin.

The second funeral had a more respectable air.

The coffin, indeed, was not less rude, but the dead man was covered with a handsome shawl, and four "mourning women" followed the body, raising a most dolorous howl from time to time.

A motley crowd of people closed the procession.
The corpse was laid in the grave without the coffin.
The catacombs of Alexandria are very extensive, and well worth a visit.

A couple of miles from them we see the celebrated plain on which the army of Julius Caesar was once posted.