The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1905-11-06

charred and burned earth and frag-
ments of cooking utensils. These dis
coveries were made fully ten feet above
the graves which contained the gigantic
skeletons.
There have been other discoveries In
Maryland Of remains of men of ire
mendous stature. A skeleton was dis
covered at Ocean City several years ago
which measured a fraction over seven
feet sir inches. This skeleton was in
TERED in a regular burying mound. and
beads manufactured by white men were
found upon 1t. This dead Indian was
probably one of the tribe mentioned by
Captain John Smith, who, in July, 1908,
made a voyage of exploration of the
Chesapeake Bay.
In speaking Of Indians in the history
which he subsequently wrote. Captain
Smith said of this tribe, called Susque-
hanocks: But to proceed, sixty OF
these Susquehanocks came to us with
skins, bowes. arrows. targets. beads,
swords and tobacco pipes for presents.
Such great and well proportioned men
are seldom seen, for they seemed like
giants to the English. yes, and to the
neighbors, yet seemed an honest and
simple disposition, and with much adoe
were restrained from adoring us as
gods These are the strangest people
of all these countries, both in language
and attire, for their language 1t may
well become their proportions, sounding
from them as voice in a vault
Their attire Is the skinnes of beares
and wolves, some have cossacks made
of beare's heads and skinnes that a
mans head goes through the skinnes
neck and the cares of the bear fastenea
to his shoulders, the nose and teeth
hanging down his breast another
~ ind m
end of the nose hung pave, the halle
sleeves coming to the elbows where the
recks and beares and the arms through
the mouth with pawes hanging at their
noses. ..
zone had the head of a wolfe hanging
in a chaine for jewel, his tobacco pipe
three-ouarters of a yard long, prettlly
carved with a bird. deare or some
such device, at the great end suffictent
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 pallfsaeded In their
townes to defend them from the Mas
sowmeks, their MORTAL enemies Five
of their chief Worowances came aboard
us and crossed the bay in their barge.
The picture Of the greatest of them Is
signifed in the marpe.
The calfe of whose leg was three
quarters of yard about. and all of the
rest of his limbs so answerabie to that
proportion that he seemed the goodli-
est man we ever beheld. His hayre.
the one side was long. the other close
shore, with n ridge over his crown like
a cooke comb. His arrows were fiye
quarters long, headed with the splinters
of a white crystal like stone, in forms
of heart an inch broad and an inch
and a half long or more. These ne
wore in a wooleves skinne at his back
for a culver, his bcwe in the one hand
and his clubbe in the other as is de-
scribed."
An evidence which seems to bear out
the suposition that the skeletons found
are of the same tribe was that one OF
the skulls found had a large heart
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
extend to the waters edge. Beneath
this bank Is layer of mari. The
graves are in the sand few feet above
1.-THE hard mari and have deposits of be-
tween twenty and thirty feet OF sand
and gravel above them. A. peculiar fea-
ture of the discovery Is the charred
state of the bones of the women and
children. This seems to Indicate that
the al lent Indians cremated he bodies
of all except their warriors. The wet
resting place of the be mes for so many
centuries has made them very soft and
fragile, and ii was with the greatest
difficulty that they were removed.
The work was done under the surer-
vision OF widgeon, who has done most
OF the collecting for the academy for
the Choptank he has been to the West