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by tlie Spanish clergymen of the expedition to prominent Indians- 

 reckoned as converts at the time— and that their fellows, in obedience 

 to a custom long established and maintained even to the present moment, 

 upon the death of the fortunate owners, buried them in the grave-mounds 

 erected for their sepulture. 



Fig. B 1. 



We regret that we have no suitable references at hand which would 

 enable us to determine, at least api)roximatively, the date of the manu- 

 facture of these crosses. The silver of which they are made is seem- 

 ingly quite pure, and each cross is about the thirtieth of an inch in 

 thickness. 



Some intrusive engraving appears on the face of one of these objects. 

 Behold the delineation of the head and neck of a horse! Even the most 

 sui)erficial examination will convince any one that this figure was not 

 made with the graver's tool which wrought theother ornamentations, but 

 that it was more rudely done, and, in all likelihood, with the sharp 

 point of a flint flake. 



Why an oicl should have been figured on the other face of this cross, 

 i know not. Were this a Eoman relic our wonder would not be excited. 



