Already I seemed to hear the water rippling against the desiccated bones and rattling them together, rolling my skull against Mahomed's, and his against mine, till at last Mahomed's stood straight up upon its vertebræ, and glared at me through its empty eyeholes, and cursed me with its grinning jaws, because I, a dog of a Christian, disturbed the last sleep of a true believer.

require refaction and satisfaction against the informers

aerugo. Green or blue-green copper rust; verdigris. (American Heritage Dictionary, 1973)

These saints, by the way, do not always preserve after death the mild and martyrsome dispositions that characterized them during life.