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Soon after we had ae at Seti José—in fact, before: we o left the a 
steamer—we were told of some caves, near the town, in which hu- 
man skeletons had been discovered, and by i inquiry found a. your 
man who thought he could pilot us to one of the caves. A da é 
set for the trip, which was made on horseback, part of the way over 
rolling hills, then a few miles along the beach, which was left behind = 
as we turned our course inland for about a mile to where the sand- > 
stone rocks were partially hidden by trees. Tying our animals to 
trees at the foot of the slope we were soon beneath the overhanging 
cliff where the burial place had been, but the cave had been cleared 
by some one evidently many months or years before. By careful 
searching, enough bones were found to show that at least three per- 
sons had been placed in the cave, which the guide said had once 
been blocked at the entrance with a large rock. The bones of one 
skeleton had been painted red with some kind of pigment easily 
washed off, and consequently not, as the guide believed, stained red 
by the individual having eaten freely of ‘“‘pitahayas!” Small frag- 
ments of some fibrous cloth, dry grass and a few small shells strung 
on fibre were the only relics found with the disarticulated bones. _ 
Many of the bones had been carried a distance by the woodrats, to - 
- be added to the brush used in constructing their houses. I forgot 
to mention that the burial cave was three or four feet above the 
ground floor and extended horizontally into the side of the over- 
hanging ledge for a distance of four to six feet. Another cave with 
an entrance shaped something like an inverted U, four feet in height, 
was on the level with the ground and gave out a strong bat - like 
odor. Candles had been brought for just such a place, and after 
lighting one I crawled into the cave, leaving two Mexican boys at 
the entrance with green branches with which they were to strike at 
any bats that might fly out. It was very hot at the back of the 
cave, forty feet from the entrance, but that was to be expected. The 
place was found to be fairly alive with bats, some of which were 
picked from the walls and crevices and dropped into a bag, and a 
number of others were secured by the boys outside. They proved 
to belong to two species, a large and a small kind, and as they flew 
about in the cave they repeatedly extinguished the light, leaving me 
in darkness. About four dozen were collected before it was time to 
return to town. During the few hours that we remained at the 
caves a heavy thunder storm had been in progress, but we were 
