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wall (if the fourth terrace. Xo teeth were found. Some of the 

 molars had evidently been lost in life. Ribs and isolated vertebrae 

 extended the width of the grave to the clifT where we found the 

 entire skeleton of the child buried 32 inches deep, turned slightly 

 to its left side, the head towards the northeast. A toe tone was 

 found 5 feet away, buried i foot under the east end of the 

 platform, and some of the smaller bones were only i foot under 

 the surface and next to the front wall. There was very coarse 

 gravel about the bones and large stones on all sides of them. In 

 examining the bones from this terrace, Mr. Sullivan found an 

 extra femur of a child about three years of age. It is difficult to 

 account for the absence of the long bones of the adult, which 

 were searched for most thoroughly. Either they had been removed 

 before the rest of the skeleton was deposited, or the grave had 

 been opened and the missing parts removed. I think the latter 

 explanation the more plausible, for none of the bones were broken 

 and some of the rib bones and vertebrae were in their appropriate 

 position. To explain the single femur of the child is likewise 

 difficult. 



While filling in the top terrace we started the sand sliding 

 from above, and brought to view several small bleached frag- 

 ments of bone and a very large, badly w^eathered jawbone with the 

 teeth remaining in it. Bones of the same skeleton w^ere found by 

 digging along the edge of the dike and a pelvic bone was recov- 

 ered from a crevice in the cliiT a foot and a half under the sand. 

 By the side of it were fragments of decayed wood, probably ma- 

 mani, and bits of a calabash or gourd. The bones w-ere those of a 

 man about sixty years of age and well above the average height. 

 Only a few teeth were left on the lower jaw; the skull and long 

 bones were missing. 



From an opening made in the front wall of the fourth ter- 

 race next to the cliff, we dug back 8 feet. About 3 feet 

 behind the base of the w^all one of the men picked up a perforated 

 dog's tooth, not very well preserved. Against the cliff were a 

 few pieces of a broken gourd and a few wdiite bird feathers not 

 more than an inch long. 



Digging in the middle terrace revealed nothing but that the 

 construction w'as identical with the other Halalii terraces ; the 



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