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discovery of the Coldstream cave, of which an account is given 

 further on ; but there the case is reversed. At Coldstream, besides 

 the one containing the sepultures, there was discovered, about a 

 mile or so from it, another cave that "contained no skeleton but a 

 quantity of animal bones. It seemed a sort of shooting or hunting 

 box." 



This fact would add strength to the theory that the accumulation 

 of the animal bones in the Hawston cave is due to the act of man. 



About one mile from the Hawston cave, and close to the lagoon, 

 there was found a large boucher. It may, of course, be a mere 

 coincidence, but it is well worth noting that the clean, slanting cut 

 so apparent at the end of the horn core, in Cut 2 of Fig. 202, was 

 certainly not obtained by means of a knife-scraper ; it appears to 

 have been produced by a heavy cleaving implement, such as a 

 boucher. 



The Caves and Eock-Sheltees of the Tzitzikama and Outeniqua, 



Let us now see if the cultural relics of the troglodytic, or cavern 

 dwellings, Aborigines of the littoral differ materially from those of 

 the open-air midden makers, or of the cave- or rock-shelter dwellers 

 of the inland districts. 



The caves known to have been inhabited, or in w^hich relics of 

 primitive man have been found, extend from the coast of the 

 Cape Division to that of Humansdorp. It does not follow, how- 

 ever, that they are restricted to that part of the coast, but others 

 have not been discovered hitherto either to the west or to the east 

 of that area. They appear to be more numerous between Knysna 

 and Humansdorp. In the words of Mr. H. D. E. Kingston''' "the 

 coast for many miles about Cape Seal (Eob Berg) is rocky and 

 abrupt, open or sandy spaces of shore being few and far between. 

 The land falls suddenly and often almost precipitously from the 

 ' flats,' a tableland or shelf at the foot of the Outeniqua Mountains, 

 with a face to the sea of some 300 or 400 feet in height. This 

 is scored or intersected by a number of small rivers which have cut 

 their way deep into the land, forming narrow and densely wooded 

 kloofs. The caves, or rather fissures, are usually found midway 

 between the top, where the rough vegetation of the veld above 

 fringes over, and the trembling sea below." 



It may be added that most of these recesses are very difficult of 

 access ; and this point is of great importance because it shows that 



* "Notes on some Caves in the Tzitzikama or Outeniqua District, and the 

 Objects found therein" (Journ. Anthrop. Inst., xxx. , 1900). 



