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the next day, when Burfield confided 
to me that he knew where there were 
some ‘Dead-trees’ (not dead trees) 
that could be examined without fear 
of detection, I preferred to borrow the 
doctor’s wife’s bicycle. 
Dead-trees?. Very likely you know 
what I did not until I saw for myself, 
that the Asrapako, in common with 
several Indian tribes, place their dead 
in trees instead of in the ground. As 
the trees are very scarce in that arid 
country, and only to be found in gullies 
and along the banks of the Little Big 
Buck River, nearly every tree has its 
burden of one or more swathed-up 
bodies bound to its branches, half hid- 
den by the leaves, like great cocoons 
—most ghastly reminders of the end 
of all human things. 
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