480 THE FUNEBAL PBOCESSION. 



Presently the procession started. It was headed by 

 Seifert and the servants of the family. Then came the 

 students of the Frederic William University, six hundred 

 in all, led by marshals bearing black rods ; then a band 

 of musicians playing solemn music, and followed by eight 

 clergymen in official robes. Next came the three court 

 chamberlains, the Count of Furstenberg Stammhein, 

 Count Yon Donhoff, and Baron Yon Zecklitz, and a 

 fourth appointed for the occasion. They bore on red 

 velvet cushions the insignia of the Order of the Black 

 Eagle, the medal of the Grand Chancellor of the peace 

 class of the Order of Merit, and the countless medals and 

 orders which the sovereigns of Europe had showered 

 upon Humboldt. Then came the hearse covered with 

 black, and drawn by six black horses from the royal 

 stables. The horses were led by royal grooms, who were 

 attended by five court footmen, and a yager. Behind 

 the hearse were twenty deputies of the Students' Society, 

 each with a palm branch in his hand. Upon the coffin, 

 which was also decorated with palm-leaves, were two 

 crowns, one of laurel, the other of white azalea branches. 

 The male relatives of the dead followed — General Yon 

 Hedemann, Hermann Yon Humboldt, and William Ilum- 

 boldt-Dacheroden ; together with a number of Knights of 

 the order of the Black Eagle, headed by the chief of the 

 order, General Yon Wrangel, and the Generals of the in- 

 fantry and cavalry, Prince Wradzivill, and Count Yon der 

 Groeben. Then came the Ministers of State in their bril- 

 liant uniforms, officers of the Court, Privy Councillors, 

 and the members of the diplomatic corps. Among the 

 latter was the American Minister, Governor Wright, and 

 all the Americans in Berlin. Then a deputation from 



