140 Annals of the South African Museum. 



On the floor of that partly removed sand-dune Mr. J. M. Bain and 

 I discovered small cores, scrapers, and borers similar to those of 

 PL XVIII., Figs. 139, 140, 141, 144 (some of the pieces are there 

 included) ; also a few of the crescent-shaped pygmies (Fig. 143) ; 

 perforated ostrich egg-shell beads, but of a somewhat larger size 

 than those of Fig. 144, and not so carefully concentrically rimmed ; 

 rough scrapers of the type of Figs. 118 and 120 (PI. XV.), also made 

 from the Cape Flats surface quartzite ; larger scrapers, but also of 

 the Cape Flats type ; a small mortar ; nuclei of different kinds of 

 rock ; broken ! kw6s ; a small grooved stone for sharpening awls, 

 &G. Here also we found two brass buttons of the same pattern as 

 those occasionally found in the Cape Flats middens, as well as a few 

 pieces of Oriental china, derived probably from the wrecks of some 

 Dutch East Indian merchantmen sunk in Saldanha Bay, a place 

 but little distant from Bloembosch. 



When fresh water is as rare as it is in these parts, it is not at 

 all surprising that successive generations of aborigines should have 

 resorted to a locality where this necessity of life is found all the year 

 round. 



But diligent search, three times repeated, failed to reveal any 

 other kind of implement that could lay claim to great antiquity — no 

 boucher or vestige of it was met with, no long knife-scraper showing 

 sign of old age. 



Six months after the last search, that sand-hill had crept again to 

 the floor on which the find of implements and bones was made. It 

 is now fixed in position by a plantation of " marem " grass {Psamnia 

 arenaria), to the great delight of the owner and the chagrin of the 

 Antiquarian. 



From the account of this deposit, it will be seen that the domestic 

 utensils or tools are the same as those occurring in the Cape Flats ; 

 the pygmies are alike, and so are the larger implements. The culture 

 is therefore the same, and the race in all likelihood identical. 



Cape Town Middens. 



In Cape Town itself are the remains of what must have been an 

 extremely lai'ge midden, extending from the very seashore close to 

 Grainger's Bay, covering part of what is now the golf links, and 

 abutting on what was once the Green Point " vlei," a board and 

 somewhat deep depression in which, in former times, the accumula- 

 tion of rain-water lasted during the greater part of the year. The 

 whole of this midden has now been removed or levelled — my house 

 is built on part of it — but there are still to be found, and actually on 



