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their superstitious practices ; and the local atmosphere of terror that 

 is the heritage of the negroes with whom I came in contact has been 

 vividly described by Herbert G. de Lisser in bis " White Witch of 

 Rose Hall." (Ernest Benn, London, 1929). 



At the cordial invitation of Mrs. Maurice Malcomb and with the as- 

 sistance of her overseer Cyril R. Andresen, T spent three days in 

 examining an extensive Arawak village site on the shore of the Bogue 

 estate near the mouth of the Montego River. The area occupied by 

 this site is now at least three acres in extent. Formerly it must have 

 been much larger, as the shoreline is undergoing rapid encroachment by 

 wave action. Many stumps and trunks of large trees can be seen along 

 the beach and in the shallow water of the bay. Bits of pottery and 

 broken shell plates are numerous on the beach and in the water near 

 it. How much has been removed by the sea cannot be determined, 

 but I was told that the land extended out at least two chains (132 

 feet) beyond the present shoreline within the memory of persons now 

 living. Shells and pottery fragments are thinly scattered every- 

 where over the remaining portion of the village site, and are con- 

 centrated in several large flat-topped mounds and ridges arranged with 

 their long axes parallel with the beach. These deposits are of all 

 depths up to about 4 feet. Though somewhat obscured by brush and 

 by the coeoanut trees that have been planted on them the middens be- 

 come sharply outlined as soon as their surfaces are cleared. This site 

 was not described by Duerden, and is not mentioned in the manu- 

 script list of more recent discoveries kindly given me by Frank" 

 Cundall, Director of the Institute of Jamaica. It appears to have re- 

 mained unnoticed until Mr. Andresen detected it in January, 1931. 

 Trenches cut through each of three of the mounds yielded mam- 

 pottery fragments of the usual type as well as roughly chipped flints 

 and some shell utensils. Bones of mammals were rather scarce. 



The Windsor estate (fig. 70), in the northern edge of the Cockpit 

 country, was visited as a side trip from Montego Bay. Every facility 

 for becoming acquainted with this exceptionally interesting region was 

 furnished by Mrs. Agnes Donald-Hill, the owner of the estate, and 

 her son, William Donald-Hill. A very large cave of great beauty, 

 well lighted by electricity, is a notable feature of this estate. This 

 cave shelters great numbers of bats, mostly of three kinds at the 

 time of my visit, one of them the smallest known to occur in Jamaica. 

 One shot from a " game getter " secured 27 specimens of this rather 

 uncommon species (Chilonatalns micropus). 



At Windsor a small cave and a rock shelter gave evidence of hav- 

 ing been inhabited by Arawaks. Ashes, large land shells, mostly 



