90 The Antiquities of the [No. S2, 



16. Another figure in a sitting posture. 



17. Several figui^s of female warriors like the one before described 

 and similarly accoutred. Their long hair is tied in a knot behind, 

 and braided over it. 



In Ikois''. 



18. One iron knife having a broad curved blade and long pointed 

 shaft. 



19. A small sickle. 



20. A spear or arrowhead. 



21. A double spatula. 



22. A pair of scissors with a bent spring handle, the ends of which 

 form the blades. 



The corroding hand of time has laid very heavily on these relics. 

 Ix Brass. 



23. A small semicircular brass basin fluted and chased. 



24. Two small bells. 



25. The rim of another brass basin the lower part corroded away 

 from it. 



26. A conical brass vessel not an inch deep, with broad rim which 

 contained a hard mass of powdered charcoal mixed with some other 

 ingredients. 



In Gold. 



27. A broad gold ring ornamented with three rows of bosses. . 



In an adjoining cairn I found some urns, figures of animals, one en- 

 closed in the folds of a snake, some human figures in a similar predi- 

 cament, and one whose waist was encircled by the arm of a wild beast; 

 besides these were a few of the same Amazonian figures found in the 

 other cairn, one with a high conical cap as well as an iron knife ; and 

 an instrument of the same metal, to which I have seen no prototype, 

 resembling tv»'o spoons fastened together on their concave sides. 



Chapter 3d. 



In the course of a conversation I recently had with a Thautawar of 

 considerable intelligence, I gathered that his people fully believed the 

 cairns were constructed by their forefathers ; indeed a gentleman who 

 has resided upwards of ten years on the Hills stated to me the Thau- 

 tawars claim all the cairns as the graves of their ancient chieftains ; 

 and in the course of my peregrinations over the Neilgherries when- 



