CHAP. X. FUNERAL RITES OF INDIANS. 189 



Jonathan 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 Minnesota, at the junction of the St. Peter's Eiver 

 with the Mississippi; and Schiller, in his famous "ISTado- 

 wessisehe Todtenklage," has faithfully embodied in a poetic 

 dirge all the characteristic features of the ceremonies so gra- 

 phicall}^ described by the American traveller, not omitting the 

 many funeral gifts which, we are told, were placed "in a cave" 

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

 her die letzten Gaben," have been thus translated, truth- 

 fully, and with all the spirit of the original, b}'" 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 jialseontological evidence in favor 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 Tiemitoechus, and 

 Hippopotamus major, missing here, have been met with in 



* Poems and Ballads of Schiller. 



