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niums of Indians ; also some other bones of their bodies. These 
craniums were sent by the Government of Nicaragua in 1889 to 
the Exhibition in Paris, and in the latter part of 1889 tr msferred, 
I believe, to the National Museum of the U. S. A. (Smithsonian) 
in Washington city. A few crude beads or ornaments, evidently 
anterior to Spanish occupation in Nicaragua, were found and for- 
warded with the craniums. If any notice has been taken of them 
or anything written about them, I do not know, as I was either 
in the uninhabited part of Nicaragua or in the sparsely populated 
portions during the year 1890. I made several unsuccessful ef- 
forts, with good field glasses, to see either ocean from the top of 
Mesa Totumbla. 
I found no ruins, no evidences of ancient towns, in the unin- 
habited parts of Nicaragua. 
J. Crawford. 
Managua, Nicaragua , 14tli January , 1891. 
P. S. It seems to me that I omitted to say that there is a 
ridge of cerros, part of a monogenetic range, extending from five 
miles west of the Puebla of La Libertad, north-westward for 
about thirty miles, named u Sierra or Montana Amerrique,” on 
the south-eastern terminus of which is Cerro Amerrique, where 
the Indian town was ; also, that the Amerriques Indians’ tradi- 
tions say that they all, excepting a few, very long time ago, 
moved eastward or north of east, into the wilderness, probably 
from the Spaniards as early as about 1650. They were defeated 
several times by the Spaniards, but never were conquered. 
In reference to the Amerrique range, it, like all the mountains 
in this country, has in different localities along its course different 
Spanish names, given recently since the Spanish occupation ; but 
the Indians have only one name. This range at its southeast part 
is a distinct cerro named Amerrique, then northward on its west 
side, it has different Spanish names ; but, on its east side and five 
or six leagues northwest of La Libertad, where the path from 
La Libertad runs along the mountain’s eastern foot, it is called 
Amerrique ; but on the west side and a league further northwest 
(where the late Thomas Belt crossed it, near Juigalpa), it is called 
by the Spaniards cerro Juigalpa : the aborigenes’ name for the 
