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low-tide mark. On the top of the coffin-lid are erected tall 

 flags, and the figures of men playing gongs, shooting guns, and 

 gesticulating wildly to frighten away evil influences from the 



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sleeper. Sometimes the platform is erected on the shore above 

 high-water mark, and near it is stuck in the ground a tall 

 bamboo full of palm-wine ; and suspended over a bamboo rail 



