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the sacrum, the spinal column makes an almost square turn into the pelvis with a slight protuberance at the outside of the angle. This looks suspiciously like the beginning or end of a tail. Allowing for this and the heavy, bowed shoulders and curious shaping of the head previously described, the children are very much like those of to-day. The width of the circle is probably about eighty yards, and the children play about in the enclosure, following the amusements characteristic of their age. One group of boys, about ten years old, is engaged in a mock fight of a rather unusual nature. Five or six of them are armed with bows and arrows, with which they shoot at one who stands some twenty yards distant, covering himself with a large shield. This is composed of hide, with the hair still on it, and is, roughly, of circular shape: it is stretched over a framework of four pieces or curved wood bound together at the centre, where the four arms cross, with strips of hide. The whole being curved makes a hollow shield, and is strengthened by a straight cross- piece at the diameter, which is also used to hold it by. The bows of the children consist of willow or ash sticks, from which the bark has been scraped, strung with thin strips of hide, and the arrows are thin sticks scraped to a point. These toys are quite smooth and well-finished. The boy with the shield protects himself cleverly until at last an arrow hits him on the ankle, whereupon there is an excited yell and his place is taken by the boy who fired the shot. Apart from these cries, the game is played in silence, in which can be distinctly heard the tap of the arrowheads upon the tough, dry hide of the shield. The whole party is playing with great earnestness and concentration, whilst their elders watch with amused interest, noticing the marksmanship or agility of this or that boy, and commenting upon it to each other. The sight of half a dozen full-grown men is rather terrifying, they look so huge and hairy and so much like great apes; but, however terrible they may be when fighting or hunting, they appear to be very docile when in the bosom of their family. In another place a man is working with wood. He is scraping a thick pole about eight feet long; in his hand he holds a piece of flint about four inches long and three inches wide, shaped like a pointed oval. The edge is very keen, and the marks of the chipping by which it has been made are dearly to be seen. The back of it, by which it is held, is round and smooth; with this he is able to scrape long strips from the pole, which he holds between his knees and which he keeps feeling with his hands and examining to test its smoothness. All around him are shavings, and at his feet are a number of other flints of different shapes, similar