578 The American Naturalist. [July, 
any previous discovery of this commodity in Florida is 
unknown to him. 
POSSIBLE INDICATIONS OF CANNIBALISM. 
At the bottom of the white sand ridge, nine feet four inches 
from surface and thirty-five feet from circumference of the 
base of the mound, was found a skeleton very badly decayed. 
Immediately below were apparently the remnants of a feast 
consisting of a fragment of charred bone and four pieces of 
bone showing no action of fire, of which two were human. 
These fragments entirely unassociated with any others were in 
a better state of preservation than the skeleton immediately 
above owing to the shell below them. In every way they: 
resembled the bones of the shell heaps. 
From one fragment, a portion of the lower jaw of a child, 
every tooth was missing. While no definite conclusion can 
be arrived at in this connection it may be permissible to sug- 
yest that the process of boiling would be conducive to the 
loosening of the teeth. No other isolated human bones were 
found in the white sand layer. 
An INTRUSIVE BURIAL. 
As before stated intrusive burials were frequent in the Tick 
Island Mound. A description of one of these may be of 
interest. It will be rememberd that flexed burials vary 
greatly in the mounds of the St. John’s as to the degree and 
form of flexion. 
Near the apex of the mound, eighteen inches from the sur- 
face, lay a skeleton in a fairly good state of preservation, 
though the skull was crushed beyond recovery. The body 
lay belly down, the face rotated to the right with the neck 
flexed in that direction. The left lower extremity had the 
thigh flexed to the abdomen, the leg flexed on the thigh with 
the foot extending downward. The right lower extremity 
had the thigh abducted and rotated externally to the transverse 
plane of the body and flexed to a right angle, the leg flexed 
on the thigh and the foot extended. The arms were somewhat 
