HOLMES.] 



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net is suspended, in which had been placed innumerable arti- 

 cles, probably intended for the use of the dead— a sling, 

 made of cords, very skillfully plaited; bundles of cord and 



Fig. 198. 



flax; small nets containing beans, seeds, and other articles; 

 copper fish-hooks, still attached to the lines, which are 

 wound about bits of cornstalk or cane ; neatly-made sinkers 

 wrapped in corn-husks, together with a variety of other arti- 

 cles. 



