THE TUMULI OF THE CHALK RANGE. Ill 



by seven inches, (such as are locally termed <*pitchers,") which 

 were set up against the right elbow. At about six inches distant 

 from the right ankle, was also a small pitcher stone placed for 

 protection to the feet, of which this race of people seem to have 

 been especially careful. I would remark, that the skull of this 

 skeleton was of moderate size, and we may speak of it as be- 

 longing to a thin skulled race. The trench was then lowered, 

 and at the distance of two feet from the head of this deposit, 

 being nine and a half feet to the west of the centre of the barrow, 

 the workmen exposed a square cist, measuring two feet eight 

 inches in diameter, having double flag stones at the north and 

 south sides, set up edgeways, and leaning outwards; the former 

 measured in diameter, two feet by eighteen inches, the latter, 

 three feet by eight inches. The other sides were not protected. 

 At the bottom of this cist, which was hollowed out of the native 

 chalk to the depth of four feet from the top of the barrow, lay a 

 skeleton with the knees gathered up, (pi. xiv.,) the head towards 

 the N. N. E. and the feet towards the s. s. w. The head leant 

 towards the left shoulder and rested upon the left hand, the right 

 arm was folded across the body with the wrist touching the left 

 elbow and the hand bent downwards. The skull touched the 

 outer flag stone, and was further protected by other stones placed 

 around it, in such a manner as also to support the inner flag- 

 stone which was set up over, so as not to press upon, but ef- 

 fectually cover it. The skeleton appeared to be that of a large 

 framed man of upwards of six feet in height The thigh bone 

 measured seventeen and a half inches in length, and three and a 

 half inches in circimiference, the tibia eighteen inches, and the 

 upper arm bone, fourteen inches. The body had been so depo- 

 sited that the spine was in an arched position, and it is wortliy 

 of remark, that two or three of the lumbar vertebrae appeared 

 displaced, as if dislocated before interment. • These notes, and 

 the accompanying sketch having been taken, the remains were 



1 Mr. Anderson gives a description of the manner in iivhich the Da- 

 maras, a tribe of western Africa, bury their dead. ** Immediately after 

 dissolution, the back-bone of the corpse is broken witli a stone, and it 

 is then bent together, witli the chin resting on .the knees." 



Lake Ngami. 1856. 



