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painted with asphaltum. But, iu the opinion of the vaquero, it was a part 

 of a cradle. I may add here that the same half-breed assured me that 

 he was present, some forty years ago, when the last few Indians were 

 taken from their ranclieria at Prisoner Harbor to Santa Barbara by the 

 missionaries. 



After two days' stay, we returned again to Prisoner Harbor. The 

 next few days we spent in properly packing our collection made thus 

 far on Santa Cruz Island, and also in examining the shell-mound located 

 on the right bank of the stream, at its mouth, and where it forms a 

 small fresh-water pond, or lagoon, before disappearing in the loose sand. 

 Avoiding carefully the last resting-place of a sailor buried here some 

 years ago, we found the graves a little south of the supposed astronom- 

 ical station of the United States Coast Survey. Here we dug up about 

 40 skeletons, but hardly any implements, except 14 finely-made fish- 

 hooks with barbs, some of bone and some of shells; also some of the 

 tools and many flakes of shells required for the manufacture of such 

 hooks. 



Joining again the Hassler party on their way to the south side of the 

 island, we made a landing in a small cove designated as Los Alamos 

 (Map 6) [Plate 14]. This place is very much the same in appearance, loca- 

 tion of the mound, and of the two graves, as that at Coche Prieto. The 

 returns were poor, although we unearthed about 100 skeletons. I will 

 mention a piece of fishing-tackle, which was here, as on previous occa- 

 sions, repeatedly found in connection with fish-hooks and bone fish- 

 spears. It is a piece of a bright shell, varying, say from 2 to 4 inches 

 in its longest measurement, differing in shape, but similar to the design 

 (c) [Plate 22], which was fastened at the end of a line, and used, I am con- 

 vinced by observations iu exhuming it and by the explanations of old 

 Mexicans and Indians, to attract the fish somewhat as in our present 

 mode of trolling with a " spoon-hook". 



Next morning we again undertook to land at Smuggler's Cove (Map 7) 

 Plate 15], near the east end, and this time with success, although the 

 utmost skill of the ofiicer in the boat was required to avoid an accident. 

 Here we readily found the cemetery on the gradual ascent of the left 

 bank of the creek, in a thicket of thorny cactus growing all over this ex- 

 tensive shell-heap. Among the articles discovered, my attention was again 

 arrested by a deposit of shell-flakes, as first found at Coche Prieto, and 

 afterward at Prisoner Harbor, some of which were partially worked 

 into fish-hooks, others finished. Other kinds of implements were found, 

 such as double-pointed borers, of coarse, gritty sandstone, flint points, 

 and a whetstone shaped something like a double-edged knife. All of 

 these kinds of articles had been found before, but never such a full 

 assortment in one place. I had before suspected that these objects were 

 used in the manufacture offish-hooks. I now was convinced of it, and 

 as the tools comprise a complete set, I will illustrate them with several 

 figures taken from the originals, which will be found among the 



