1016 
gical age — also artifacts were not found — another find near 
Wadjak is of special importance. At the eastern corner of the 
described rectilinear part of the mountain, at a height of about 120 
meters above the plain, in the same kind of breccia and clay and 
again on a small terrace-shaped projection (behind which was found 
the entrance of a cave forty meters long, running in the shape 
of a U, and almost entirely filled up with the same kind of clay, 
in which nothing of any importance was found), I dug up some © 
parts of a human skeleton in the same year, which are in a very 
different state of fossilisation, and have a quite different anthropo- 
logical character. It is also certain that these remains were worked 
as skeleton by a human hand, for the outer surface of the cranial 
bones (not the inner surface), the teeth, and also other bones were 
painted red with a firmly adhering ochre-layer. After this the bones 
must have been broken, for the fragments were encrusted and partly 
enclosed in breccia, in a similar way as those of the two Austra- 
loids. They are however much less petrified and specifically lighter 
than these. Besides, the skull was distinctly brachycephalic, in contrast 
with those dolichocephalic australoid skulls. As this fossil man is 
certainly prehistoric, the bones of two others, fossilized under similar 
circumstances, but to a very much higher degree, must probably 
date from Plistocene time. 
The presence of human remains from very different periods may 
be attributed to the circumstance that this mountain slope belonged 
to the shore of a lake abounding in fish *), the fact that the bones 
are broken in so many places may be accounted for in this way, 
that in times lying widely apart, first the two proto-Australians living 
there, and much later the skeleton placed before the cave which 
was probably inhabited, were buried and crushed under falling stones 
and rubble, possibly in earth-quakes. In the lime-stone mountains of 
Sumatra I a few times witnessed close by the imposing phenomenon 
of the spontaneous fall of lime-stone rock and rubble, and also once 
in the Gunung Kidul (Southern Range) in Java. The large quantity 
of rubble, at the foot and against the slope of these mountains, bears 
witness to the frequency of the stone-falls. The fragmentary character 
of the parts of the skeleton cannot be attributed to cannibalism ; the 
fractures are too numerous. The lower jaw of Wadjak II, a very 
strong bone, was, for instance, broken into at least five large pieces. 
The fact that in both cases the remains were found on a flat — 
1) Calcareous waters abound in fish as a rule. The Rawa Bening does so 
still, and the number of water-fowl is enormous; it is also paradisical through its 
uxuriant vegetation. 
