128 TlMEHRI. 
of a Carib cemetery (in which the bones are 
found enclosed in small clay urns), in the island of 
Balliceaux, one of the Grenadines. As I shall presently 
be able to give almost certain proof that the pottery at 
Enmore is of Carib origin, it seems, putting all these 
things together, that we may safely assume the 
Enmore island to have been a Carib burial place.* The 
burial-jars, if such was there nature, were, to judge 
from the curves of the fragments found, of considerable size 
- — large enough perhaps to hold all the bones of a skeleton, 
though not an entire, undisintegrated skeleton — 
very thick in substance, and seem to have been un- 
ornamented. Examples of the coarse pottery are shown 
on Plate XIV., Nos. i & 2. 
A question naturally arises as to why the finer vessels 
are present if, as has been suggested, the place is a 
cemetery and the larger vessels were deposited with the 
bones of the dead. Two suggestions may be made on 
this point. In the first place, it is the well known cus- 
tom of almost all primitive people to bury with the dead 
various utensils, weapons, and even food, with the idea 
* Most unfortunately a possible chance of ascertaining the position 
in which the bodies were buried was lost. Just before I was at Enmore, 
Mr. Porter noticed, embedded in the earth clinging to the roots of an 
upturned tree, an entire, or nearly entire, skeleton. Knowing that I 
was to visit the spot in a few days, he left this undisturbed for my 
inspection. But before my visit, some one had discovered the skeleton, 
pulled it out and dispersed the bones. Again, since the above was 
written, the Honble. B. Howell Jones, on apparently a similar island 
on the same, or a similar reef, at the back of Pin. Le Bon Pere, found 
an entire skeleton to which some of the hair still adhered ; but this too 
was destroyed without the preservation of even a few hairs, which 
would have been of great value. 
