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the surface in the lime-cemented layer of shell and bone 

 deposit. It is a block of limestone, hollowed out on one 

 surface by constant use. 



The hard layer of deposit proved to be the richest in 

 interesting objects and, in additi"n to the grinding slab, there 

 were discovered in it the mealing or grinding-stone, the human 

 remains, and the stone implement already mentioned. 



The mealing-stone. a circular water-rounded granite 

 pebble, is stained with the red pigment referred to above. 

 Other water-worn stones, mostly of quart/, were found in fair 

 numbers, all having evidently been brought home by the 

 cave-dwellers with the intention of making use of them. 



Some of these also were stained with pigment, having 

 been probably used for grinding it up. 



The stone implement was found in a small trial pit, sunk 

 previous to general excavation. I shall, however, describe 

 this specimen later, when dealing with similar objects obtain- 

 ed in the course of excavating the other bay at the mouth of 

 the Qua Kajang. The human remain.- were, rather unfortun- 

 ately, first discovered by one of my Malays. This man. being 

 tired with digging, had left the spot at which we were 

 working, and had started scratching and burrowing in the 

 trial pit just mentioned. When he had been thus employed 

 for some time, he brought me a fragment of human jaw with 

 some teeth still in it. saying that he had found a good many 

 other pieces of bone and had thrown them out of the hole. I, 

 therefore, set to work to collect as many of the broken bits as 

 possible and to excavate some pieces of jaw which were visible 

 in the burrow that h? had made. There were thus retriev- 

 ed the greater portions of an upper and a lower jaw. but only 

 one small portion of the skull, some fragments of ribs, and 

 some finger-bones. When the surrounding ground, which 

 formed part of the block that I had decided to open, was 

 properly excavated, some arm. leg, foot, and other bones were 

 also discovered; these were removed, as far as was possible.- 

 imbedded in lime and shell matrix. A very large part of the 

 skeleton was missing, and our efforts to find the rest of it 

 were not successful. 



These bones have not yet been cleaned or reported upon 

 by an expert, so I do not feel justified in making more than a 

 few remarks anent them. Judging by the teeth, they are 

 those of an aged person, the worn-down state of the molars 

 being remarkable. 1 The front teeth appear to have been filed 

 down to a certain extent, a practice still indulged in by the 

 Malays and some of the Negrito tribes. 1 could see no signs of 

 the earth above the body having been disturbed since its first 

 deposition. The bones were, as alreadv stated, imbedded in a 

 matrix of shells and fragments "f bones, w^ere hard, though 



' This is also a noticeable characteristic of sonif of the human teeth found 

 by Mr Wray. 



