200 VOYAGES OF A NATURALIST 



sometimes with a sort of chignon, decorated with 

 two long feathers pointing forwards. This figure 

 was sometimes doubled, and a particularly fine 

 one was inside one of the houses (Fig. 5). Odd 



Fig. 6. — Designs carved in the rock outside the houses at the lip 

 of the crater. 



corners of the rock were filled up with these designs 

 (Fig. 6). There was also a block with a rather 

 deeply carved sort of owl's face inside one house. 

 Outside one house were the deep marks of tool 

 grinding. 



" Some houses had two entrances on the same 

 side, and sometimes a middle partition. I found 



Fig. 7. — A painting in a cave of a frigate bird. 



no implements, but had no means of digging. 

 I saw a few obsidian chips, and have no doubt 

 there is much to find here. 



" Mr. Cooper gave me a broken stone fish-hook 

 and an old wooden idol. 



