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4 their own slain they carry to their Towns or hang up in mass on trees. They have general burying festivals when they collect the bones that preserved, which are then buried and thence in my opinion those numerous small graves which are attributed to pigmees, but Bleilicar?? erroneously, I have opened numerous of these small graves and I have found them filled with a parcel of mouldered bones which judging from some fragments I have seen belong to common sized men, In one of these graves I found two two occipital bones of course it was a mere mixture. These bones lay without any order, this is not the case with the graves of the old extinct race whose graves are much longer the skeletons being generally stretched, nevertheless I have found them also more or less doubled up so that the part of the thigh bone which forms the knee lay near the lower jaw, in other graves I have found the head face downwards, in fact they seem to have burried their dead in any position. The present Indians burry their dead almost doubled the thigh against the breast as for the form of the graves, they are rude fabrics composed of rough flat stones (mostly a kind of slaty lime stone or slaty sandstone both abundant in our state) A flat stone was laid on the ground in an excavated place; upon it were put (edgewise) two similar stones of about the same length as the former and two small ones were put at both extremities so as to form an oblong cavity lined with stone, of the size of a man, the place for the head and feet have the same dimensions when a coffin was to be constructed next to it, one of the side stones served for both and consequently they lay in straight rows, in one layer only, I never found one above the other. They were buried with their valuables such as laces, trinkets and utensils, these all being of a very rude construction and also formed of some natural production, non of metal, it is evident that they were less civilised than the Indians were when America was discovered by Columbus - The examination of these trinkets has created in me the opinion mentioned above that they came from some tropical country for as far as I have been able to ascertain beads seem to have been the only imperishable trinkets they possessed and of these I found many I found also the materials