Explanation:
The context of the sentence shows it is narrative; that is it <em>tells a story about an event.</em>
It could be better rendered this way;
"The desolate landscape and the remaining leaves from the trees were scoured by the harsh wind."
Possibly that hearing those bells isn t something one ought to hear after having done something as having trapped them in a crypt, but something less cheerful for such an act as his. Guilt.
They see,for the first time, the crematotoria where bodies are burned 1.
