Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-10-13

oosidian eyeballs were intended II
be inserted. The cans are very care.
fully carved and are prominent.
There are also, in different parts Of
! tue island, wooden tablets. covered
with curious carvings ana strange
Aleroglyphics, which no one. can ex.
plain. .-.---.-
IL Is remarkable that present M.
oves have small wooden image,
carved out Of a hard. dark wood, bul
| these Images are fisieoa=and differ
altogether from the dignified statues
of the platforms.
The present Inhabitants are simply
tatt0oes savages, who are mOse than
suspected 10 have taste for canni-
tulisun. They live in long low
houses, in shape like an upturnei
eanoes with only a singFc opening
about two feet square, wholly unlise
the massive stone villages We have
described There may have Teen
WOOD on the Island at one time. Tor
Tue natives are well provided with
clubs a-d speass, and they also use
dOu5.e-hsaded paddle which has
not been observed elsewhere ia the
Pacific. But, on the other hand.
they may have brought these imple-
mehts with them. Tor they have a
tradition that their great-grcat.
sr1ndfathers einigrateil from the-'
Island u Ranaiu, about aDl9 miles
away, and just south Of the Austrsl
group. b. th..s as u NAV, they call
their present stc-le f;Br.niri or
Gte'd Reps, - distinguish il from
Wnai thcs e.sii their former !.aHle.
AT OqIro, o. iiap7iti, Captain
n Inc Hall f0uada tempie, o. castle.
In I've sagis aynrJgRdei In walls |
which irc.o-s sioUe h0use.; aad also
ss'lsEe platforms OK stone On the
-idt-s u Uns Or the hills, similar h
those on Eastern iSiuuI. The ira
dii.ons Of tine ualivez Il ptar1-
which IL an i-,,---ri u some twenty
mics In clreumicrenee-a-c full U.
warlike siruggles. and there Is reason
T. sgppJss that these struggles EoTe
with siUngeIs Who may have been
intrenched ia this easiia. II thes~
stranger. we've Compsled by tine
natives % hy 10 uieit uoSis. affel
some hsiit ;hey g'eJM certainly
have drilled to E.RsteF Island. nut
who were these straugenf
Tue yelutsa origin o. the Easter
'>iaEdc5s thT0Ys n light uTu- tbs.
steru houses AMI status AMI s-ulp-
trrcs. The present Elaaiers knsu
nothing about these r-nsibs and
o! lTly have 80 scfs Of ,JGuecliou
with .hrla. shcy are the reiic- %
an ancient people wiih iutellireuc,
lar beyond Euy thing now found in
tie ia, life, with notions OF architeC-
'ure and sculpture and painting au6
engineering, and with come distinct
aud elaborate form Jfpaganism.
WLO we've they That Is The
great mystery q the Pacific. Bot
lnOkilg iiT-t AZ the ruins IN the
Caroline gsgap I'D uIen at those u.
the small, remote Faster faiaud. u
is possible O. imagine that thtse
isiauts we're tie sscTvl and Tssefv,d
spots u some ancient civilized race
which once Ovc-rau n portion Ui
the South seas. The POSITION o!
Easier island would lend support D.
The suppU-iiiyH .ha, lhis ancient
civilization msy have hai it. OF. gin
ON the American continent, and We
know that in Genital AmeTica
there are evidences ofa' civilization
0f a vast antiquity.
Tie f5hlem o. the Pacific still g.
be solved, however, is. Who built
the forts Of Kus8ie and P5nape, the
.Tion> a3-sss and platforms % l,astef
Island, aud who worshiped these
sphinN-.ke gigantic imase>ss-Ca,-
sc'rs N4gugias.