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whom they also buried his dress, arms, or other attributes of his trade, 
down to his dog, his horse, or even’ his wife.* 
To the question of arrangement (gisement) is attached the order of 
superposition, which plays so essential a part in geology, as thence di- 
rectly results the chronological order of succession of the different 
* Note by @ransletor.—Some light is thrown upon this opinion by Mr. DuChaillu, 
in his late Explorations in Eastern Equatorial Africa, a country as primitive in 
its barbarism as we would wish to adduce as an example. The light of civiliza- 
tion reflected from the slave dealer, who appears to be the only repres2ntiative of 
western development, must be necessarily small. Nvidently, his success depends 
on depressing rather than elevating the savages with whom he comes in contact; 
sO we may consider that we have in this section of the world, a man almost in 
the first stage of progress or the last of decadence. 
“ Near Feitch Point is the Oronugon burying ground, and this I went to see 
ghe following morning. It lay about a mile from our camp toward Saugatauga, 
from which it was distant about half a day’s pullin a canoe. It is in a grove of 
noble trees, many of them of magnificent size and shape. The natives hold this 
place in great reverence, and refused at first to go with me on my contemplated 
visit, even desiring that I should not go. J explained to them that I did not go 
to laugh at their dead, but rather to pay them honor. But it was only by the 
promise of a large reward that I at last persuaded Niamkala, who was of our 
party, io accompany me. The negroes visit the place only on funeral errands, 
and hold it in the greatest awe, conceiving that here the spirits of their ancestors 
do wander about, and that these are not lighily to be disturbed. Jain quite sure 
that treasure to any amount might be left here exposed in perfect safety. The grove 
stands by the sea shore; it is entirely cleared of underbrush, and, as the wind 
sighs through the dense foliage of the trees, and whispers in the darkened, 
somewhat gloomy grove, it is an awful place, even to an uuimpressible white man. 
Niamkala stood in silence by the strand while I entered the domains of the 
Oronugon dead. 
“ They are not put below the surface. They lie about beneath the trees in huge 
wooden coffins, some of which, by their new look, betokened recent arrivals; 
‘but by far the greater number were crumbling away. There was a coffin falling 
to pieces, and disclosing a grinning skeleton within. On the other side were 
skeletons, already without covers, which lay in dust beside them. Everywhere 
were bleached bones and mouldering remains. J¢ was curious to see the brass 
anklets and bracelels in which some Oronugon maiden had been buried, still sur= 
rounding her whitened bones ; and to note the remains of goods which had been laid 
in the same coffin with some wealthy fellow, now mouldering to dust by his side. In 
some places there remained ouly litile heaps ef shapeless dust, from which some 
copper, or iron, or ivory ornaments gleamed out to prove that here, too, once lay a 
corpse. ; 
“ Passing into a yet more sombre gloom, I came at last to the grave of old 
King Pass-all, the brother of the present Majesty. he coffin lay on the ground, 
and was surrounded on every side with great chests, which contained the property of 
his deceased Majesty. Among these ehests and on top of them were piled huge 
earihenwure jugs, glasses, mugs, plates, iron pols and burs, brass and copper rings, 
