Thefinal hymn was the patriotic "I Vow To Thee My Country", and then after a blessingthe coffin left as slowly as it had arrived, and, as they caught sight of it, once again the crowds outside cheered.
But thefinal pair did not go down without a fight, Ewing and Blessing Mahwire (13 not out) recording Zimbabwe's equal fifth-highest tally for the last wicket.
"I thought that the German curse had turned into a German blessing, " he said, when asked what he thought when he heard thefinal word, a German-derived Yiddish word for a type of dumpling.