68 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



rising Long Mountain ridge as seen from Kingston and of the gently 

 rolling topography of the summit, near Mr. McDougall's house. At 

 one end of the flower bed shown in Figure 62 the Arawak deposit was 

 nearly 3 feet deep, with abundant shells and pottery fragments, and 

 a few bones. 



In the Mandeville region I was unable to find any Arawak de- 

 posits. Three small caves in the decomposing limestone, a very slight 

 idea of which is given by the photograph of a recently cleared and 

 planted peasant's tobacco field (fig. 63), yielded some interesting re- 

 mains of mammals. No rock carvings or other indications of Arawak 

 occupancy were detected. 



At Mandeville and also at Pepper, in the Santa Cruz Valley, I 

 was enabled, through the kindness of Aubrey M. Lewis, Esq., and my 

 cousin, Mrs. Lewis, to make a large collection of samples of wood 

 of the native trees, which grow in great profusion on the Lewis es- 

 tates at both places. Attention was also given to the reptiles and to 

 the treefrogs that take advantage of the miniature aquaria held at 

 the heart of the larger epiphytic plants. 



Near Montego Bay the chief objects of interest were the burial 

 cave at " California " (now merged with the Rose Hall estate) on the 

 north shore of the island and the extensive middens on the Bogue 

 estate across the bay from the town. 



The cave at Rose Hall has been accurately described by Duerden. 

 During the 35 years since he visited the locality the vegetation on the 

 surface of the ridge where the cave is situated has changed from 

 "more or less ruinate" pasture to dense young forest. Under such 

 a cover so small an object as the entrance to the cave is effectually 

 hidden. The difficulty of finding it was greatly increased by the 

 reluctance of the negroes on the estate to act as guides. One old man 

 who had shown the place to Duerden nearly collapsed when ordered 

 to accompany me. He said that immediately after going there with 

 the " other gentleman " lie was sick for two years, and that the night 

 before my visit, having been told that he was to be ready the next 

 morning to guide me, he dreamed that he saw two men digging his 

 grave. That he was rendered quite useless by fear was evident. A 

 bolder man was finally persuaded to take me to a point from which he 

 could indicate a tree that marked the entrance of the cave. Arrived 

 there he immediately sat down in the middle of the cart track that we 

 were following, and for some time refused to move, thus signifying 

 his determination to avoid danger. Some idea of the reason for this 

 fear is given by Duerden's remark (p. 28) that many of the bones in 

 another Jamaican cave had been removed by the " obeahmen " for 



