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be distinguished into two kinds. The one kind is of a 
coarse and thick character, and occurs so associated 
with human bones as to lead almost inevitably to the 
belief that the place has been aburial-ground of some people 
who were in the habit of burying their dead in urns or 
jars. The second kind, as plentiful or even more so, 
consists of fragments of finer, and apparently smaller, 
vessels, such as may probably have been used as drink- 
ing-cups, water-bottles, cooking and food vessels. 
As regards the coarse pottery, it is especially unfortu- 
nate that it seems impossible to find a whole vessel. But 
whenever it seems to be in an undisturbed state — i.e. 
whenever it does not seem to have been recently thrown 
up and dispersed in the course of sugar cultivation — the 
fragments occur in groups so disposed as to 
suggest the idea that each heap represents a 
whole vessel, which had been placed in its pre- 
sent position intact, but had afterward been bro- 
ken down from above by the weight of the super- 
incumbent earth. And in the middle of each of these so 
flattened-out jars occurs a heap of human bones, each 
heap apparently representing an entire body. That 
many American tribes, in common with many peoples in 
a similar stage of civilization in others parts of the world, 
buried their dead in jars — or rather, after temporarily 
disposing of the bodies of their dead until the flesh had 
been separated from the skeletons, afterward placed 
these bones in jars, and so buried them — is well known. 
And that among the American tribes who did this may 
be numbered the Caribs of the West Indies seems 
probable from an account, to which I have already 
alluded in a previous number of Timehri (Vol. ii., p. 254), 
