200 VOYAGES OF A NATURALIST 



sometimes with a sort of chignon, decorated with 

 two long feathers pointing forwards. This figure 

 was sometimes doubled, and a particularly fine 

 one was inside one of the houses (Fig. 5). Odd 



FIG. 6. Designs carved in the rock outside the houses at the lip 

 of the crater. 



corners of the rock were filled up with these designs 

 (Fig. 6). There was also a block with a rather 

 deeply carved sort of owl's face inside one house. 

 Outside one house were the deep marks of tool 

 grinding. 



" Some houses had two entrances on the same 

 side, and sometimes a middle partition. I found 



FIG. 7. A painting in a cave of a frigate bird. 



no implements, but had no means of digging. 

 I saw a few obsidian chips, and have no doubt 

 there is much to find here. 



:c Mr. Cooper gave me a broken stone fish-hook 

 and an old wooden idol. 



