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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



immediately to excavate the parts that were buried, 

 and carry the whole away ; but it was a more diffi- 

 cult business than that of getting out the beams. A 

 sohd mound of earth descended from the outside to 

 the back wall of the apartment, choking the door- 

 way to within a few feet of the top. To clear the 

 whole doorway was out of the question, for the In- 

 dians had only their hands with which to scoop out 

 the accumulated mass. The only way was to dig 

 down beside each stone, then separate it from the 

 wall with the crowbar, and pry it out. I was enga- 

 ged in this w^ork two entire days, and on the sec- 

 ond the Indians wanted to abandon it. They had 

 dug down nearly to the bottom, and one man in the 

 hole refused to work any longer. To keep them 

 together and not lose another day, I was obliged to 

 labour myself ; and late in the afternoon we got out 

 the stones, with poles for levers, lifted them over the 

 mound, and set them up against the back wall. 



The plates opposite represent these two jambs as 

 they stood facing each other in the doorway. Each 

 consists of two separate stones, as indicated in the 

 engravings. In each the upper stone is one foot 

 five inches high, and the lower one four feet six 

 inches, and both are two feet three inches wide. 

 The subject consists of two figures, one standing, 

 and the other kneeling before him. Both have un- 

 natural and grotesque faces, probably containing 

 some symbolical meaning. The headdress is a lofty 

 plume of feathers, falling to the heels of the stand- 



