CHAP. x. FUNERAL EITES OF INDIANS. 189 



John Carver, in his travels in the interior of North" America 

 in 1766-68 (ch. xv.), gave a minute account of the funeral 

 rites of an Indian tribe, which inhabited the country now 

 called Iowa, at the junction of the St. Peter's Eiver with the 

 Mississippi ; and Schiller, iD his famous ' Nadowessische 

 Todtenklage,' has faithfully embodied in a poetic dirge all 

 the characteristic features of the ceremonies so graphically 

 described by the English traveller, not omitting the many 

 funeral gifts which, we are told, were placed c in a cave' 

 with the bodies of the dead. The lines beginning, ' Bringet 

 her die letzten Graben,' have been thus translated, truth 

 fully, and with all the spirit of the original, by Sir E. L. 

 Bulwer * 



' Here bring the last gifts ! and with these 



The last lament be said ; 

 Let all that pleased, and yet may please, 

 Be buried with the dead. 



' Beneath his head the hatchet hide, 



That he so stoutly swung ; 

 And place the bear's fat haunch beside 

 The journey hence is long ! 



' And let the knife new sharpened be 



That on the battle-day 



Shore with quick strokes he took but three 

 The foeman's scalp away ! 



' The paints that warriors love to use, 



Place here within his hand, 

 That he may shine with ruddy hues 

 Amidst the spirit-land.' 



If we accept M. Lartet's interpretation of the ossiferous de 

 posits of Aurignac, both inside and outside the grotto, they 

 add nothing to the palseontological evidence in favour of 

 man's antiquity, for we have seen all the same mammalia 

 associated elsewhere with flint implements, and some species, 

 such as the Elephas antiquus, Rhinoceros hemitcechus, and 

 Hippopotamus major, missing here, have been met with in 



* Poems and Ballads of Schiller. 



