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which latter was lost. The brouze cap, the coiu, and a pot of burnt, 

 coarse, sautly clay which was foimd at M-po-mo, and also a few remains 

 of corroded iron knives, found in the three graves, tell us of the last 

 days of the existence of these people at a time when they evidently had 

 held intercourse with the advancing missionaries, who, almost every- 

 where in America, were the pioneers of civilization. 



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Most of the objects were found perfect ; and those which were not, had 

 been broken by the pressure and shifting of the soil, as could easily be 

 seen from their position. It is, therefore, certain that the bulk of the 

 property buried with a person was not purposely broken nor destroyed, 

 the same thing being true of my investigations in Oregon. I even 

 found mortars and pestles which had been repaired and cemented with 

 asphaltutn. The richer occupants of the graves had shell and glass 



