3 io Mexican Caves with Human Remains. [April, 



tions from the soil, but the people possessing the same ability to 

 take nature's gifts, and adapt them to their every day wants in a 

 highly satisfactory manner. We are astounded in beholding 

 their workmanship, they simply took nature's gifts and made the 

 best of them. Comparing the cave clothing with that of the 

 ancient Peruvians, we find a close alliance ; both made by a 

 hand-loom, the same as is used by the Indians of Peru, Mexico, 

 Arizona, New Mexico and Southern California to-day. The rude 

 Navajo Indian makes a blanket upon one of these hand-looms, 

 which commands not only a good price from white men, but 

 their admiration— yet he is considered a savage — lives in a hut. 

 It is not necessary to live in palaces, in order to perform great 

 works, and it is shown by our ancient and modern American In- 

 dians, that they were equal to emergencies, until compelled to 

 face Europeans with their civilization. 



In the New and Old World, it is customary to consider 

 those that lived in caves to be a distinctive people from those 

 called Pueblos or town-dwellers. The evidences of these kinds of 

 habitations are to be found in many places. There was another 

 class of dwellings : the perishable huts made of tree branches and 

 thatched, of which nothing is left. The dwellers in each of these 

 three classes of buildings might be of the same race. In the win- 

 ter living in caves, in summer or while attending to crops they 

 might live in temporary stick-huts. Some caves contain human 

 remains, these have been put there as the easiest means of dis- 

 posing of the dead. If surrounded by enemies, as the industrious 

 and peaceful Indians of ancient times were, they had become 

 Pueblos or dwellers in towns as a means of defence, yet they could 

 be of the same people as the cave-dwellers, or those who inhab- 

 ited brush houses. There was a distinctive race from the above 

 which lived in brush huts ; they lived by the chase, and roamed at 

 will over the land, always warring against the town-dwellers. In 

 some sections many stone implements are found, in others those of 

 bronze. The finding of these tools of different materials is no evi- 

 dence of their being made by distinctive people or in remote 

 periods from each other, for sometimes one finds both' together. 

 Ancient and modern people in nature use whatever their section 

 afforded. There is no reason to suppose that the so-called 

 mound-builders were different from the cave-dwellers. Town- 

 dwellers, makers of flint or bronze implements, they were all of 



