wrapped. It consists of threads parallel to one another and con- 

 siderably spaced, united together at intervals of a foot or more by 

 transverse threads. At the two extremities of the hammock, the 

 threads appear to be simply gathered together for the atti 

 of a stout cord for suspension. 



In the manner of weaving, or rather in the arrangement of the 

 threads, the hammocks of the cavern of the Morro de Diogo Velho 

 bear a close resemblance to that represented in one of Lery's 

 woodcuts, 2 but the form is different. Lery says that the Brazilian 

 Indians made their ims of cotton thread, sometimes like a net, 

 sometimes woven into a close cloth. Both Lery and Stade call the 

 hammock ini or innt, a word which I have sought in vain in Tupi 

 dictionaries, and which does not occur to-day in Lingoa geral. 



On the Amazonas the name for hammock is kygdna (ky$aba, 

 old Tupl), a word which seems to have been derived from ker 

 dormir (to sleep) and the termination qaba or fana, which indicates 

 the instrument with which anything is done. In the language of 

 the Mundurucus I have found ulu and in that of the Maues yly 

 meaning hammock, both of which forms may well have been de- 

 rived from the same source as ini, as the three languages above 

 enumerated belong to the same family. 



Underneath the bundle formed by the two bodies were laid side 

 by side a number of broad strips of coarse bark. 



Over the bodies was deposited npside down a basket, well made 

 and full of little bundles of palm straw, each with a knot. Over 

 this were laid side by side strips of coarse bark, like those under- 

 neath the body, the whole being covered with earth. 



In the same grave was found a " bornal " similar to that already 

 described, but in a bad state of preservation. 



No. 12. Bundle containing the remains of a little child, found 

 buried at a slight depth and extracted in my presence. The body 

 was well wrapped in the first pi ace in strips of bast forming a 

 little bundle scarcely eighteen inches long, a foot and a half broad 

 and about four inches high. This package was then loosely cov- 

 ered on the outside with palm straw, which was tied up in a number 

 of little bundles like those found in the baskets, and the "bornal " 

 already described. The body was deposited immediately upon a 

 flat stone, and over it were placed, side by side, four flat pieces of 

 bark, about two feet long and two inches wide, forming a sort of 



