This done, they placed its feet in the water and left it looking very small and lonely.

Presently appeared a tall, white-draped woman who took her stand by the body and wailed.

It was the dead one's mother.

Again the bearers approached and laid the corpse upon the flaming pyre.
"These rites are ancient," said Oro.

"When I ruled as King of the World they were practised in this very place.