Any trinkets he may have had, should of course be sealed up and
put aside, and not included in the sale: they should be collected in
presence of the whole party, a list made of them, and the articles at
once packed up. In committing the body to the earth, choose a well-marked
situation, dig a deep grave, bush it with thorns, and weight it well over
with heavy stones, as a defence against animals of prey.
MECHANICAL APPLIANCES.
To Raise and Move a Heavy Body.--On Land.--Lever up its ends alternately,
and build underneath them when they are lifted up. After a sufficient
height has been gained, build a sloping causeway down to the place to
which the mass has to be moved, and along which it may be dragged, with
the assistance of rollers and grease. If the mass be too awkwardly shaped
to admit of this, burrow below it; pass poles underneath it, and raise
the ends of the poles alternately. Mr. Williams, the well-known
missionary of the South Sea Islands, relates how his schooner of from
seventy to eighty tons had been driven by a violent hurricane and rising
of the sea, on one of the islands near which she was anchored, and was
lodged several hundred yards inland; and thus describes how he got her
back:--"The method by which we contrived to raise the vessel was
exceedingly simple, and by it we were enabled to accomplish the task with
great ease.
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