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The condition of the soles indicated that they had never been trod upon. This means victims were either carried by litter to the well or else they were dressed in sacrificial vestments when they arrived at the site. Evidence favors the second possibility because of two pieces of correlative information: first, murals depict priests being carried by litter, but none apparently shows victims being carried; second, a great deal of the sacrificial ceremony must have taken place at the precipice of the well in order to account for the many structures there. One of these structures is a ritual steam bath, similar to those found throughout the Maya world. If the victims were ceremonially bathed, it would appear that it was done before clothing them, not afterward.

Belfast is second only to Glasgow as a builder of big ships. Here, all the ships of the Union Castle Line were built; also the Ark Royal, one of the largest of Britain's aircraft carriers, and several crack liners, including the ill-fated Titanic, to whose victims in the tragic foundering a moving monument stands in front of the City Hall. Many of the victims were Belfast people, working on the ship's staff.

This first triumph of Red Cross principles has since protected the sick and wounded of armies during wartime. Three later conventions have extended protection victims the protection to victims of sea warfare, prisoners of war, and civilian populations in time of war. All four conventions have been revised from time to time in light of experience, the latest revision coming in 1949.