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North-west Indians, who could, I believe, easily, in their large 

 canoes, sail or drift down to the islands with the currents, in a 

 shorter time than a Japanese junk could. One can usually see 

 half a dozen N. W. drift logs on the beach at Keoneloa. On the 

 beaches of Niihau, some fifty miles away, hundreds of logs and 

 Red Wood posts have been picked up a few months after freshets 

 on the Pacific coast of the U. S. and B. C, had washed out the 

 logging dams of the saw mills. 



The last figure on my diagram, I take it, was made to represent 

 a woman in parturition. 



P. S. Since writing the foregoing, I have seen Dr. Emerson of 

 this place. He tells me that eight or nine years ago, he saw on the 

 beach at Houaunau, Kona, Hawaii, somewhat similar drawings, 

 cut into lava rock. Honaunau is not far from Keei, the place at 

 which the Spanish man and woman are said to have lauded in 

 about 1527-28. The natives of Hawaii know nothing of the 

 workers. Dr. Emerson says: Kackeoewa came from a Hawaiian 

 family. My "cross" may be a totem. 



Mr. Wm. W. Jefferis was appointed Curator of the William S. 

 Vaux Collections for the current year. 



The following were appointed the Committee on the Hayden 

 Memorial Award for 1898 : — Messrs Persifor Frazer, Angelo 

 Heilprin, Theodore D. Rand, Benjamin Smith Lyman, and Jos. P. 

 Lesley. 



The following were ordered to be printed : — 



