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bodies. I fouud, for example, a lower jaw lying near its right place, 

 but upside down, so that both the upper and the lower teeth pointed down- 

 ward ; in another case the tliigh-bones lay the wrong way, the knee- 

 pans being turned toward the basin ; and, in other instances, the bones 

 were totally separated and mixed up ; all tending to show that the graves 

 had been repeatedly opened for the burial of bodies at different times. 

 Once I even found, upon piercing the bottom-crust of a sepulchre, 

 another lying deeper, which, perhaps, had been forgotten, as the bones 

 therein were somewhat damaged by fire. Plenty of charcoal is found in 

 these tombs, usually of redwood, rarely of pine, and I could not deter- 

 mine any third variety. Sometimes there were also discovered the re- 

 mains of posts from three to six inches in diameter, and of split boards 

 about two inches in thickness. These are probably the remains of the 

 burned dwelling of the deceased, placed in his grave with all his other 

 property, after the fashion 1 observed in Chetko last year. 



I examined other graves resembling those described at Point Sal. 

 These others are known by the name of T6-me-te-ti. They lie about 

 fourteen miles north of the Point Sal graves, and are situated on the 

 right bank of the Arroyo de los Berros, opposite to the traces of former 

 settlements about seven miles inland. These tombs only differed from 

 those of Kes-ma-ti in not being lined with the thick burned brick-like 

 crust mentioned above, but with a thin light-colored crust, sbghtly 

 burned, and not more than a quarter of an inch thick. 



To these graves I paid a second visit, hoping to obtain more material, 

 having been there only a very short time at my first visit. But the 

 proprietor of the land disappointed my desires, for he appeared, in spite 

 of my scientific explanations, to be inclined, according to squatter- 

 fashion, to prevent, with his rifle, my visit to the land, to which he pos- 

 sessed no title. These were the graves where I found the bronze cup, 

 and a buckle of the same material, which later, I am sorry to say, was 

 unaccountably lost. I had hopes to discover more of such articles, 

 enabling me to trace the connections of these people. The location ot 

 this village is rather hidden; it is situated on a small plain between a 

 bluffy elevation on the left bank, and the rather high and wooded right 

 banks of the Los Berros Creek. I could plainly notice the excavations 

 where houses had formerly stood, and particularly the large sweat- 

 house. 



In company with the well-informed and industrious antiquarian. Dr. 

 W. W. Ilays, and Judge Yenabel, of San Luis Obispo, I explored 

 another aboriginal settlement known by the name of Ni-po-mo. It is 

 situated on the large rancho of like name, about eight miles inland, and 

 distant about a mile and a half from the Nipomo Eanch House, occu- 

 pied by the hospitable Dana brothers. These graves are also in sandy 

 soil, near a former settlement, the existence of which is well marked by 

 quantities of flint-chips, fragments of tools, bones, and a few shells. 

 Only about three hundred yards from the graves, and nearly in a 



