86 WILD LIFE UNDER THE EQUATOR. 
What a strange burial-ground it was! It was situ- 
ated on a prairie, with no trees in the neighborhood, and 
poles were the only signs that could show it to be acem- 
etery. Here and there a grim skeleton could be seen, and 
the remains of things that had accompanied the deceased 
men and women to the grave. 
