be sent to the Museum, but not having arrived at time of writing, 

 I have not been able to examine them closely. 



No. 5. Bones of a child buried in an earthen vessel, and dis- 

 covered during our exploration. 



The upper part of the yga^dba was wanting, together with a 

 large part of the bones, including the skull, and the remaining 

 parts of the vessel were broken, the fragments however remaining 

 in situ. The pot was ovoidal in shape, the lower part resembling 

 the tapering end of an egg. It was not at all flattened, and con- 

 sequently the vessel could be kept upright only by being set in 

 the ground or supported in some way. The material of which it 

 was constructed was clay mixed with somewhat coarse sand. The 

 vessel appears to have been made over a mould ; indeed it would 

 have been difficult to build it up in any other way. The inside is 

 slightly rough, showing no signs of having been smoothed by a 

 finishing tool, whose marks are however clearly observable on 

 the outside surface. No signs of paint, of varnish, or of deco- 

 ration of any kind, were observed on the parts of the vessel pre- 



The burning was- incomplete, and for about one-third of the 

 thickness from each surface, the clay of the walls is well reddened, 

 the interior remaining of a grayish color. In the pot were found 

 the following bones belonging to the skeleton of a young person : 

 — The femur, tibia and fibula of one leg, united by the dried lig- 

 aments and with parts of the muscles preserved, the knee being 

 flexed, showing that probably the body was buried with the knees 

 doubled up against the breast. There were also the united bones 

 of a fore arm, a scapula, a hand, six dorsal vertebrae, four ribs of 

 the left side united, and in addition six ribs, separated. The rest 

 of the bones were wanting, and I doubt whether they existed in 

 the vessel when it was found by the negroes, for I searched care- 

 fully in the earth thrown from the spot, but could find nothing. 

 It seems therefore probable that at some previous time the grave 

 had been disturbed, perhaps by some wild beast. The bones were 

 found mingled with a light earth which appeared to be mainly com- 

 posed of organic matter, and to be full of the skins of the larva? 

 of the insects that attacked the body. 



In the same earth were also found a number of seeds, which M. 

 Glaziou identified as belonging to a species of Anona or custard 

 apple. There were also found numerous fragments of the pinnules 



