24 DISCOVERIES AT A VILLAGE OE THE STONE AGE. 
galena seems highly probable; and Darwin, in his account of 
the native Fuegians of South America, who subsisted on a 
diet similar to that of the Stone men of Bocabec, records their 
appearance as follows: “ These poor wretches were stunted in 
their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with white paint, 
their skins filthy and greasy, their hair entangled, their voices 
discordant, their gestures violent, and without dignity.” 
PERMANENCY AND ANTIQUITY OF THE VILLAGE. 
It has been thought that these kitchen-middens around 
the shores of Passamaquoddy Bay were made by a people who 
camped along the shore in summer for fishing and hunting, 
but retreated inland to the shelter of the woods in winter. 
There are, however, indications that the occupation of the 
village sites marked by these shell-heaps was more or less 
continuous. 
Among the indications of occupancy at other seasons than 
the summer, I may refer to the kind of clay used in their 
pottery, and the places in the village where deposits of this 
clay were found. In making sections of the three hut bot- 
toms at Bocabec we passed through several layers of pottery 
clay of small lateral extent, which had evidently been scatter- 
ed on the floor of the huts. So also in the kitchen-midden 
in front of hut bottom A, irregular layers of the same kind 
of clay were traversed. These layers were mingled with the 
charcoal and refuse that had been cast out from the door of 
the hut in such a way as to show that all had come from within 
the hut. I think, therefore, there can be little doubt that 
the moulding of the pottery was sometimes carried on within 
the huts. The practice of chipping their flint implements 
within the hut, to which I have already referred, would also 
indicate the use of these dwellings during the colder part of 
the year. 
The very fact of these savages using only the mud of the 
beach in the manufacture of their pottery, seems to show that 
the work in terra-cotta was carried on mostly in winter, when 
other and better kinds of clay (for no other kind has been 
found in the sherds collected at Bocabec) were inaccessible to 
them. 
