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as the former, with this exception, that he had no feathered rug, neither had he a fan in his hand. The hair which still remained on their heads was entire. That of the female was of a yellow cast, and of a very fine texture. Both male & female, by their hair, afforded unclear evidence, as some of those who saw them supposed, of European or Asiatic extraction. The female was, when she deceased, of about the age of 14. The male was somewhat younger. The cave in which they were found, abounded in nitre, copperas, alum & salts. The whole of this covering, with the baskets, was perfectly sound, without any marks of decay. The eyes of those persons seemed perfectly sound, only somewhat sunk below the ordinary position in the socket, caused by their dry state. [De Soto, in his march in 1539, 1540, saw great members of these mantles, See, in chapter 5, [Hayward's Nat & Ab. History of Tennessee] where his march in described. After crossing the Mississippi, and arriving at the Indian towns on the west side of it, which the inhabitants abandoned at his approach, he found there great numbers of mantles. See also [of the same] ch: 4, sec. 4, where it is stated that the Mexicans made such feathered mantles.

In the island of O-why-hee, in the Pacific ocean, in the year 1777, when Captain Cook visited them, the king & his chiefs were drafted in red feathered