The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-28

well become their proportions, sound- ing from them as a voice in a vault
 Their attire is the skinnes of beares and wolves, some have cossacks made of beares heads and skinnes that a mans head goes through the skinnes neck and the cares of the bear fastened to his shoulders, the nose and teeth hanging down his breast, another beares face split behind him, and at the endaof the nose hung pave, the halfe sleeves coming to the elbows were the necks and beares and the arms through the mouth with pawes hanging at their noses.
 One had the head of a wolfe hanging in a ehaine for a jewel, his tobacco pipe three-quarters of a yard long, pret- tily carved with a bird,a deare or some such device, at the great end sufficient to beat out ones braines; with bowes, arroWes and clubs suitable to their greatness. These are scarce known to PoWhatan. They can make near 500 able men and are pallisaeded in their toWnes to defend them from the Mas "AAHN&ASg LL1SsL IllOL lctll SllSIlllGSs ElNO of their chief Werowances came aboard us and crossed the bay in their barge. The picture of the greatest of them is signified in the mappe.
 "The calfe of whose leg was three
 quarters of yard about, and all of the rest of his limbs so answerable to that proportion that he seemed the goodliest
 man we ever beheld. His hayre, tBa,
 one side was long, the other close shore, with ridge over his crown like cockes comb. His arowes were five quarters long, headed with the splint- CTS of a white crystal like stone, in forme of a heart an inch broad and an inch and half long or more. These 1 he wore in a wooleves skinne at his
 back for quiver, his bowe in one hand and his clubbe in the other as is described.'
 An evidence which seems to bear out the supposition that the skeletons found are of the same tribe was that one of the skulls found had a large lheart-shaped arrow imbedded in it. At the point on the Choptank where
 the remains were found there are steep shelving cliffs of sand and gravel that lextend to the waters edge. Beneath | this bank is a layer of marl The
 graves are in the sand few feet above lthe hard mari, and have deposits of be- tween twenty and thirty feet of sand and gravel above them. A peculiar feature of the discovery is the charred state of the bones of the women and children This seems to indi- cate that the ancient Indians cremated | the bodies of all except their warriors
 The wet resting place of the bones for so many centuries has made them very soft and fragile, and it was with the greatest difficulty that they were re- moved.
 l The work was done under the super vision of Widgeon. who has done most
 of the collecting for the academy for a
 number of years. Since his work on the Choptank he has been to the West l Indies and made a splendid collection
 of several thousand specimens of in-
 sects, which Professor Uhler has at his
 home and which he is classifying. Another curiosity brought from Ja- 1 uldcld Is d nuSH WIllle dlllS HeSI, WHICH
 Widgeon says is the largest he ever
 saw, and that he believes it is the
 largest in the United States. It is
 about three and half feet in diameter.
 and is formed from the sap of a tree, 1 The ants build at the base or in the
 branches of trees. They construct
 from the inside, much in the same
 manner as hornets do their nests. The ants nest has much of the appearance of a hornets home, except that the
 color is different, being dark brown.
 The Jamaica specimen is now resting
 on boards in the yard in the rear of
 the academy. building, and all around it coal oil has been poured to kill the
 ants as they come out. It has been there
 for a month, and several hundred ants still coming out each day.-Baltimore American.