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beads in great numbers, sickle-shaped ornaments of tbe ahalone (ludioiis) 

 shell, and an ornament resembling dentaliunij but made of a large clam- 

 shell, strewed about their heads. 



During my explorations I also diligently searched for caves which 

 might have been inhabited and from which important information might 

 have been obtained. But in these investigations I did not meet with 

 much success, partly because 1 had not the time necessary at my dis- 

 posal, for scarcely had I got to a place where tbey existed, when my duties 

 demanded my attention and obliged me to give up the exploration. I 

 could, therefore, only designate on my map the place which I might, with 

 some degree of certainty, suppose to be a formerly-inhabited cave, so 

 as to facilitate later investigations. Once I was obliged to suspend 

 work at Point Sal for a Avhole week on account of thick fog. I had time, 

 however, to search in the gorges and rocks, hoping to find ethnological 

 objects. I discovered and opened at that time the graves of Kes-mali, 

 and not far off the cave, (Figs. 4 and G.) But I was rather disap- 

 pointed, when, after clambering through and over almost inaccessible 

 places, I reached the cave, and found that it was only eight by four feet 

 wide and eight feet high ; and that there were in it only one pestle, with 

 many oyster- shells, bones, and teeth. The floor was formed of stratified 

 brown ash-like soil, iu which were the above-mentioned objects. The 

 circular entrance to the cave measured three feet in diameter. On the 

 right-hand side of the entrance was a niche which had evidently been 

 worked out of the hard but cracked sandstone, and was large enough for 

 one person to sit comfortably therein. Toward the back part, the cave 

 has also been worked out, so that a person might lie down stretched out ; 

 that is, I found that I could comfortably occupy these positions, although 

 I am seventy-three inches in height. The whole cave, it appears to me, 

 has been artificially made with a chisel. I did not examine the articles 

 which it contained very closely, and must, therefore, refer to the col- 

 lection itself. For the same reason, I have not said much about all the 

 other objects of the collection, but refer for more particulars to the fol- 

 lowing catalogue and to the collection itself. 



CATALOGUE OF IMPLEMENTS FOUND IN THE DIFFERENT GRAVES. 



1. Cup for preparing paints, together with an egg-shaped grinder, Xo. 



42. Kes-md-ll. 



2. Mortar for preparing paints ; found with red paint in bronze vessel. 



Te-me-te-ti. 



3. IVIortar, soft gray sandstone. Ni-po-mo. 



4. Mortar, hard gray sandstone. Nl-po-mo. 



5. Mortar, soft gray sandstone. Ni-po-mo. 



C. Paint-cup, dark stone, was found, together with the pipe, Xo. 40. 



N.* 



* N = Ni-po-mo ; K, Kes-mu-li ; T = Te-me-te-ti ; W = Wa-le-kbc- 



