and in a few moments it was finished. I didn't know that the gravedigger had always remained in the grave until now, and was therefore not a little surprised, when this man emerged with all the earth thrown on his body, through which he worked his way out with great effort and in a position lying on his back. When the grave was closed, everyone moved away about 30 - 40 steps, and the gravedigger and those augurs remained sitting on the burial mound. After a little while, however, they rose and one of them threw to the crowd first the club and then the scale with which the grave [had] been made; All hands stretched out to the former and one of them happily caught it; but the latter, it seemed, and as I was later told, was deliberately left to fall to the ground. This use seemed to me to be conceivable [as] a kind of divination or questioning of fate; because after the club was caught, the previous silence and sadness was immediately replaced by loud and more than usual cheerfulness and several said to me: "Very nice (tauare manni)". We then continued on, stopping not far away and lighting a series of at least 6 or 8 small fires, which, according to the natives, had reference to the grave; Some people also made small fires here and there along the way. When we were not far from the city, an old, venerable greybeard suddenly stopped and began to cry piteously, which many people did not pay attention to, but several remained standing next to him without crying. I was told later that after a few days they would go back to the grave to weep; But I can't say whether this really happened. Dixi [I have spoken].

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