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able places, other small piles of stones are to be seen 

 erected in such a way as to leave a small hole in their 

 centre, and at the bottom of this hole ashes and the stubs 

 of burnt sticks can be seen ; while on some of the rocks 

 about were found small bundles of fagots tied with bark 

 and of a convenient size to be taken in one hand and 

 placed in the holes of the rock piles, evidently indicating 

 that these bundles of sticks were brought into the cave 

 for use as lights and firewood. Farther on, in side pas- 

 sages and chambers, other indications of habitation were 

 noticed, and in one small chamber, in which the foot of a 

 white man had never stepped before, were seen on the 

 cave enrth the imprints of feet that had been shod with 

 peculiar braided moccasons or sandals. Here were in 

 reality the "footprints on the sands of time." The naked 

 heel and toes, and the braided covering to the sole of the 

 foot, have left impressions as distinct in the tenacious and 

 heavy soil of the cave as if made but a few days pre- 

 vious. In these side chambers, in only a few of which 

 Mr. Putnam's guides had been before, were found a num- 

 ber of cast-oif sandals, very finely made of the twisted 

 leaves of the cat-tail flag {Typlia) braided in a careful 

 and artistic way, identical in the manner of braiding 

 with the straw sandals from China, though of a differ- 

 ent shape, and having a raised portion from toe to heel, 

 like the sides of a leather slipper, while all the ends 

 of the braids were brought forward and united on the 

 median line over the toes. About twenty-five of these 

 sandal-like moccasons of various sizes and of several 

 slightly varying designs, but all worn through at toe and 

 heel, were found in the interior chambers of the cave. A 

 piece of cloth more than a foot square and finely and 

 regularly woven, probably from the inner bark of some 

 tree, was also found. This cloth was specially inter- 



