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The body was lying on its right side, but not quite horizontally, 

 this being probably due to the removal of one side of the original 

 layer, the place where it was exposed being a sloping bank ; the 

 legs were bent and drawn towards the chin ; the position of one arm 

 was doubtful, but the encrusted right hand lay on the back part of 

 the pelvis. 



We found several scrapers of the usual Cape Flats type ; two pygmies, 

 one made of transparent quartz ; the left ramus of a small antelope 

 (the Steinbok), but, as I have already stated, only a small portion of 

 the midden was visible, the rest was either covered or had been 

 obliterated by the shifting sand-weaves. 



Fig. 21. 



1. loose sandy limestone. 2. layer op beoken shells. 3. loose 

 sand with many branching tubular bodies of harder rock. 

 4. position of human bones. 



Mr. A. W. Rogers, Director of the Cape Geological Survey, who 

 kindly accompanied me to investigate the deposit and disinter the 

 skeleton, could not express an opinion as to the actual age of the 

 former, no shells or bones of extinct animals being found in it. 



The crest of that midden is very much higher than the present 

 level of the sea. It was not dominated at the time of our visit by 

 the crescentic sand-dunes, but the insidious creeping sand-waves 

 were gathering round. One month afterwards all signs of its 

 existence were absolutely obliterated. 



Separated from the seashore, where Mijtilus Turbo and Patella 

 shells abound, by a long stretch of undulating sand-hills, continually 



