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the same race of people that now occupy the region. On ac 

 count of a lack of data, however, this is inconclusive. 



Many &quot;oven-mounds&quot; are found. In outward appearance 

 they resemble the burial mounds above described. Within, 

 however, are the charred remains of fruits or sea species that 

 have been over-baked. That these are oven mounds, there is 

 no doubt, as the Ouillayutes bake clams, wild fruits, and &quot;la 

 camas&quot; (Kammas, S cilia fraseri) in the same sort of oven to 

 this day. A pit is dug in which a fire is built. On the fuel 

 cobbles are piled, which, when heated to a red heat, are 

 covered over with wet leaves, brush, or grass. On this the 

 fruit or sea species are piled and over all wet grass is spread 

 to a thickness of, say, seven inches. Then over all clay, 

 earth or sand is heaped. Just before completing the covering 

 over with the earth, a quantity of water is poured on the 

 cooking product and then when the covering is completed a 

 small hole is left through the dirt layer for the escape of 

 steam. The cooking process is then let have its course for 

 about 24 hours, when all is removed, or a hole dug through 

 the top of it, and the cooked product removed. The earth- 

 mound is left and the shifting sand fills up the hole from 

 which the baked articles have been taken. The mound is then 

 complete. 



The cave-burial place is in a niche on the east side of a 

 little islet a few hundred feet north of James Island. In the 

 long ago this cave \vas more extensive than now; the en 

 croaching sea will soon obliterate it entirely. How large it 

 was originally, of course, can not now be determined. In it, 

 under and intermingled with several feet of loose rock and 

 boulders, were the bones of the dead, which \vere now and 

 then uncovered by the pounding waves. For many years 

 every white man who has come along has carried away some 

 of the bones. Whether any of them have been placed in some 

 museum is unknown to the writer. It is not likely that any 

 of the bones are now left, as the waves have been sweeping 

 the entire cave at high tide since 1908. Besides the bones, 

 this cave has yielded some stone implements : a stone adz, 

 several arrow points and a stone pipe were dug out of the 

 debris in 1907. The writer was told that it yielded a con 

 siderable quantity of these implements in the last 35 years. 



