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About three feet farther on I found a second grave similarly formed 

 with also a skeleton in exactly the same position, with tbe exception 

 that the drawn-up knees had been pressed toward the right side, and 

 that the head-board, being decayed, had fallen down so that the heavy 

 stones were resting on the skull. The mouth was wide open, with a 

 round stone sticking in. it, which might have been pressed in when the 

 head-board fell. Close to the side of the first skeleton lay an implement 

 of bone, CNo. 208,) of which some few pieces were lost, either before 

 interment or through the hasty manner in which the search was made, 

 as I did not wish to awaken the suspicion of the natives, and, further- 

 more, time was precious to me. 1 found nothing worth mentioning in 

 the soil about the skeletons. It was mixed with broken stones, which 

 appeared to have been exposed to fire, such as I have found frequently 

 below the surface, mixed also with pieces of flint, bones, shells, &c. 

 About one foot above the skeleton I found the handle, No. 269, aud 

 about the same distance below the surface the iragment of clay-pipe 

 No. 242 5 but it appeared to me that the two last-mentioned ones had 

 been deposited in this place accidentally. I do not share the opinion that 

 the implements found in the grave of the former owner of the soil had 

 been j)urposely broken, as I found in well-preserved graves diiierent objects 

 in a sound condition, mingled with the broken implements ; I observed the 

 position of the latter, and always found the fitting pieces together, from 

 which it became evident that the pressure of the earth or other accident 

 had caused their breakage after they had been buried. I think that 

 at this place numerous other skeletons might be found with little trouble. 



Here I must further remark that on the Bald Mountain, which is on 

 the left bank of the Chetko River, about five miles from its mouth, and 

 which is about 3,000 feet high — being the highest mountain in this 

 vicinity — there are said to be various kinds of stone implements, among 

 which are those which, in former times, are reported to have been used 

 by a medicine-man in his superstitious rites. I give the tale for what 

 it may be worth. 



Ndte-netm, [Lone Eanch.) — If we follow the coast-trail three miles 

 pi a northerly d'.rection, we come to a side-trail where a way-mark 

 points to Lone Eanch, which is about six miles from Chetko. Mr. 

 Cresswell is the owner of this laud on which the debris of the former 

 inhabitants is lying in great quantities. At a measured depth of 28 

 feet I saw gigantic bones of different kinds of animals. In the lower 

 layers the shells and bones are completely decayed, aud have been 

 changed into a dark ash-like soil. There is much of interest here, but 

 my two visits were of short duration, and I was prevented from making 

 measurements of bones and skulls as I should like to have done. These 

 heaps are the oldest that I have seen. The soil is too sandy aud too 

 dry for even a shrub to grow on the large hill, which is near the house. 

 Opposite the creek are the depressions marking the sites of former huts 

 still plainly visible, but the quantity of shells is small. About one mile 



