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of under size and very old. The other is that of a male below the age 

 of majority, and possessing better mental developments than the 

 female. Of the third skeleton, only a few fragments were found. 



It appeared as though they had been killed by the falling of some 

 loose rocks from the roof, while they lay asleep in the cave. A stone 

 of fifty or sixty pounds' weight lay on the head of one of them, and a 

 still larger piece on the breast of the other. The substance which had 

 accumulated above them was principally the dirt and earthy powder of 

 animal remains, and their bones, with which were occasional remnants 

 of fires and burnt stones. Indian arrows of flint were found from top 

 to bottom. The skulls lay at the remotest part of the cave, and were 

 left there before it was occupier! by men. It is probable that the hu- 

 man remains were at first covered by the remnants brought by animals 

 into the place, and that it was used also for shelter and a place for 

 cooking by whoever inhabited the country previous to the whites. 

 The extent of sheltered space filled with bones is about fifteen feet by 

 fifty ; and as very little vegetable matter was found in it, the accumu- 

 lation must have been due principally to the residue of animals. 



CRANIAL CAPACITY OF THE FLATHEAD INDIANS. 



DR. TTniAX recently presented to the Boston Natural History Society 

 the result of some investigations, undertaken with a view of determin- 

 ing the comparative cranial capacity of the distorted skulls of the Flat- 

 head Indians. Actual measurement of this capacity of eleven flattened 

 crania from different Oregon tribes gave an average of 81| cubic 

 inches. The capacity of the skulls of the American Indians generally, as 

 stated by Dr. Morton, from the measurement of 161 crania, gives an 

 average of 84 cubic inches. It does not appear that the Flatheads are 

 less intelligent than other North American savages. Dr. Pickering 

 describes them as even more intelligent, and as having made greater 

 advancement in the arts, than the hunting tribes of North America. 



MEN WITH TAILS.* 



COUNT CA?TELNAU, a French savant, has lately communicated to the 

 Geographical Society of Paris the result of some personal inquiries at 

 Bahia, in South America, respecting a race of human beings with tails. 

 " I found myself in Bahia," he says, " in the midst of a host of negro 

 slaves, and thought it possible to obtain from them information of the 

 unknown parts of the African continent. I soon discovered that the 

 Mohammedan natives of Soudan were much further advanced in mind 

 than the idolatrous inhabitants of the coast. Several blacks of Haoussa 

 and Adamawah related to me that they had taken part in expeditions 

 against a nation called Niam-Niams, who have tails. They traced their 

 route, on which they encountered tigers, giraffes, elephants, and wild 

 camels. Nine days were consumed in traversing an immense forest. 

 They reached at length a numerous people of the same complexion and 



* See Annual of Scientific Discovery, 1850, pp. 318, 319. 

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