562 © General Notes. [August, 
In Nicaragua the guilty wife was repudiated, while the guilty 
man was severely beaten with rods by the woman’s relations. In 
regard to punishing the guilty man, the Egyptians had a similar 
custom. Diodorus Siculus says (Lib. I), “In case of adultery, 
the man was to have a thousand lashes with rods, and the 
woman her nose cut off.’ This seems a strange similarity, and 
I doubt not that many others could be found who practiced this 
custom among their respective tribes.— W. Y. Hoffman, M.D. 
Tue DiminutivE Mounps of Oregon Indians alluded to in the 
May number, page 322, can be seen and investigated at the present 
day near the former homes and haunts of the several Kalapuya 
tribes, although the majority of the natives were removed over 
twenty years ago (shortly after the Government treaty of 1855) 
to the Grand Ronde Reserve in Yamhill and Polk Counties. The 
Tuálati name for these earthworks is “ażtúdshtp.” Many of them 
are visible about six miles west of Forest Grove, on the eastern 
of a wooded hill, which slants down towards McCloud’s 
Farm and the track of the narrow-gauge railroad. Low elliptic 
or oblong ditches include four five, six, or even seven of these 
rounded, paraliel moundlets. This location was the ancient home 
of the Tuálati, or, as they call themselves, Atfálati tribe, who 
derived a portion of their daily food from the “wild potatoes ” 
(or wapatu in Chinook jargon) growing at the bottom of the 
neighboring Wapatu Lake. It is the root or bulb of the Sagit- 
taria sagittifolia and was gathered by the women of the tribe, 
who ca ught it between the toes, or by pressing both feet together, 
and had to stand in water up to the waist all day during the ripen- 
ing season. 
Although the custom of throwing up atúdship is gradually dis- 
appearing among the Indians on Grand Ronde Reserve, some 
mounds of this “description are still to be seen ona high hill 
north of the agency buildings. On this mountain top they 
awaited the rise of the sun after having exerted themselves during 
the night in carrying up-hill heavy rocks in Sisyphus fashion, 
and rolling them down again. Other hillocks are thrown up in 
the hush of night by the female portion of this Indian com- 
munity, who seem more interested than the males in keeping up 
this antique custom of their forefathers, on a flat-topped eminence 
_ about one mile east from the seat of the Grand Ronde Agency.— 
A. S. Gatschet. 
ATTENTION is called to the following titles of papers and separate 
_ publications: Les sepultures de l’âge du renne de Solutre, Lou- 
_ vain, 1878, 54 pp., Extrait de la Revue des questions scientifiques, 
by Adrien Arcelin; “ Ethnographic Parallels and Comparisons,” 
Dr. Andree, Stuttgart (the object of this publication is to bring 
: rom all parts of the world evidences of the existence 
and i use of the same implement or custom, as, for instance, meas- 
