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On our return to our anchorage at Cook Bay, we examined tlio platforms 

 within easy reach of tlie settlement, and alsu the crater of Rana Kao, on the 

 north rim of which, at Orongo, are a number of the stone houses built by 

 the people who ((uarried the great stone images. At Orongo are also found 

 sculptured rocks, but neither the sculptures nor the images show any artistic 

 qualities, though the fitting of some of the cyclopean stones used in building 

 the faces of the platforms indicates excellent and careful workmanship. To 

 Mr. C. Cooper, manager of the Easter Island Company, we are indebted for 

 assistance while visiting tlie points of interest of the island. lie was inde- 

 fatisable in his exertions in our behalf. 



Uki> Tufa Cuown, -i Ft. Hiuii, 4 Ft. Diam. La Pkuoisk Bay. 



We took a number of photographs during our stay, illustrating not only 

 the prehistoric remains, but giving also an idea of the desolate aspect of 

 Easter Island during the dry season. 



Many of the images have fallen near tlu' platforms upon which they 

 were erected, or have been abandoned in different parts of the interior of the 

 island while on their way from the quarries at Rana Rorok.a to the various 

 platforms where they were to be erected. Near Rana Roroka. at Tongariki, 

 is the largest platform on the island, about 450 feet in length with its wings, 

 to the rear of which are fifteen huge imaL:;es which have fallen from the 



