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homes — a vain effort ! they were all either lolled or fled, and 
none ever returned to bury their relatives, or remove the 
excellent implements that they possessed. There must have 
been a reason for this. Some of the sling- stones, of gray 
colour, that I found here are the common kind found in the 
neighbourhood, that, no doubt, belonged to friends who 
assisted them. I afterwards found a few red flint weapons 
on a battlefield close by ; and I have no doubt some who 
survived reciprocated the kindness by joining in the general 
engagement. 
I consider these three families represent the last race that 
emigrated to this island previous to the use of iron, and that 
they had only recently become friendly with the older inhabi- 
tants. The implements found here are the most varied and 
the best assortment that have been ever found together in 
this neighbourhood, but they indicate that the people did not 
understand the use of metal. They consisted of tools that 
are considered to have been used for basket-making or 
wicker-work, coopering, carpentry, and fishing ; such as 
hatchets, hammers, nails, chisels, wedges of various sizes, • 
drills, scrapers for cleaning skins or for stripping willows, 
and fish-hooks, as well as weapons which may be named 
javelins, bills or beaks, beautifully-formed sling-stones, spear- 
heads, arrow-points, and the supposed dress-fastenings, as 
well as a large number and variety of knives of all sizes, and 
curiously -shaped implements, the use of which is not now 
understood. 
A short distance from this place, on the right, in a field 
abutting upon the grounds in front of Mr. Lloyd's house, and 
immediately between the cliff and the double line of embank- 
ment before described, there is undoubted evidence of a severe 
battle having been fought ; it was literally strewed with sling- 
stones, spear-heads, and dress-fastenings, with a very few 
general implements, and, with the exception of a few red 
