462 A. K Verrill — The Bermuda Islands. 



But I have found no description of the nature or amount of work 

 actually completed there. 



Among the old records are numerous entries of amounts paid to 

 the garrison and for supplies of various kinds, up to 1090 or later. 

 Southampton Fort was also in use as late as 169-3.* The usual amount 

 of pay was 170 pounds of tobacco annually, for each man of the 

 garrison ; for in those times tobacco was the regular currency of the 

 islands, not only for the payment of wages and salaries, even of the 

 governor, but also in ordinary trade and barter. In 1622 tobacco 

 was valued there at 2 shillings 6 pence per pound, but the people 

 claimed that this was too little. In 1629 there is a record of 

 amounts in tobacco paid for cedar lumber, nails, rosin, tar, etc., for 

 a new water cistern and platform at the King's Castle, as well as for 

 the labor of building it. 



Repairs were recorded as made at King's Castle and Southampton 

 Fort in 1660, and a new cedar platform was made at King's Castle. 



It was used as a prison in 1649, and it is recorded that it was 

 made the place from which the pilots should go out to ships in 1656. 



In June, 16*72, much alarm was felt on account of news of the 

 war between England and Holland. Consequently the forts were 

 repaired, guns were remounted, and a new fort was ordered to be 

 built, at an unfortified place, but the locality 7 is not l-ecorded. Per- 

 haps this was the very old stone redoubt at the entrance of Hungry 

 Bay, now in ruins, but with part of the side walls standing. All the 

 guns were ordered tested with double charges in H>74. 



The King's Castle was again repaired and the guns were put in 

 order by Governor Coney, in 1684. 



As the extinct " cahow '' was still abundant on the adjacent 

 islands when the earliest fortifications were built on Castle Island, 

 and as it must, undoubtedly, have furnished part of the rations of 

 the workmen and garrison up to 1616, it was thought possible that 

 by a careful search in the adjacent soil, or in the kitchen-refuse of 

 those ancient works, if any could be found, some of the bones of the 

 cahow might be discovered. Probably most of their rubbish was 

 thrown over the high cliff, directly into the sea. 



A considerable mass of debris, mixed with "kitchen middens," 

 was, however, overhauled close to the old fort on Gurnet Head, but 

 no cahow hones Ave re found, though there were bones of common 

 birds, fishes, and domestic animals in good preservation, showing 

 that the calcareous soil is suitable for the preservation of the bones. 



* One of the depositions made in 1693, in regard to buried treasures, was by 

 Capt. Brangnian, commander of Southampton Fort. (See eh. 2<i. c.) 



