there was in the cast of the face, which remained distinctly 

 marked in the soil, the deep red color evidently retained from 

 the red ochre which had been used to daub the face of the 

 brave going - on the war-path. Another skull had on the back 

 of it a deep dinge, with the bone cracked and driven inward, 

 such as would have resulted from a heavy blow from the 

 weighty stone hammer-like weapon, which, swung by the 



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thick leathern handle, is known to have been used in Indian 

 warfare. Further, this did not seem the original place of 

 burial of the bones, for not only were they arranged, as we 

 have said, in series of the same kind of bones from different 

 individuals, but in one or two instances the eye-sockets in the 

 skulls were filled with a whitish clay entirelv different from 

 the soil of the mound. The presumption would seem to be 

 that the remains were those of braves, for they seemed to be 

 of full-grown persons, brought from a distance, perhaps gath- 



