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wall of the fourth terrace. No teeth were found. Some of the 
molars had evidently been lost in life. Ribs and isolated vertebrae 
extended the width of the grave to the cliff where we found the 
entire skeleton of the child buried 32 inches deep, turned slightly 
to its left side, the head towards the northeast. A toe bone was 
found 5 feet away, buried 1 foot under the east end of the 
platform, and some of the smaller bones were only 1 foot under 
the surface and next to the front wall. There was very coarse 
gravel about the bones and large stones on all sides of them. In 
examining the bones from this terrace, Mr. Sullivan found an 
extra femur of a child about three years of age. It is difficult to 
account for the absence of the long bones of the adult, which 
were searched for most thoroughly. Either they had been removed 
before the rest of the skeleton was deposited, or the grave had 
been opened and the missing parts removed. I think the latter 
explanation the more plausible, for none of the bones were broken 
and some of the rib bones and vertebrae were in their appropriate 
position. To explain the single femur of the child is likewise 
difficult. 
While filling in the top terrace we started the sand sliding 
from above, and brought to view several small bleached frag- 
ments of bone and a very large, badly weathered jawbone with the 
teeth remaining in it. Bones of the same skeleton were found by 
digging along the edge of the dike and a pelvic bone was recov- 
ered from a crevice in the cliff a foot and a half under the sand. 
3y the side of it were fragments of decayed wood, probably ma- 
mani, and bits of a calabash or gourd. The bones were those of a 
man about sixty years of age and well above the average height. 
Only a few teeth were left on the lower jaw; the skull and long 
bones were missing. 
From an opening made in the front wall of the fourth ter- 
race next to the cliff, we dug back 8 feet. About 3 feet 
behind the base of the wall one of the men picked up a perforated 
dog’s tooth, not very well preserved. Against the cliff were a 
few pieces of a broken gourd and a few white bird feathers not 
more than an inch long. 
Digging in the middle terrace revealed ‘nothing but that the 
construction was identical with the other Halalii terraces; the 
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