. Three voyages of a naturalist, being an account of many little- known islands in three oceans visited by the "Valhalla," ; . FiO. 6.—Designs carved in the rook outside the houses at the lipof the crater. corners of the rock were filled up with these designs(Fig. 6). There was also a block with a ratherdeeply carved sort of owls face inside one one house were the deep marks of toolgrinding. Some houses had two entrances on the sameside, and sometimes a middle partition. I found. Fig. 7.—A painting in a cave of a frigate bird. no implements, but had no means of sa
. Three voyages of a naturalist, being an account of many little- known islands in three oceans visited by the "Valhalla," ; . FiO. 6.—Designs carved in the rook outside the houses at the lipof the crater. corners of the rock were filled up with these designs(Fig. 6). There was also a block with a ratherdeeply carved sort of owls face inside one one house were the deep marks of toolgrinding. Some houses had two entrances on the sameside, and sometimes a middle partition. I found. Fig. 7.—A painting in a cave of a frigate bird. no implements, but had no means of saw a few obsidian chips, and have no doubtthere is much to find here. Mr. Cooper gave me a broken stone fish-hookand an old wooden idol. PAINTINGS AND IDOLS 201 We rode down to a cave by the sea on thewest side, called in the map Hangaroa. Therewere many paintings in red and white and black,principally frigate birds (Fig. 7), and a man-of-warwith white portholes, and another square-sailedship. These do not appear to be of greatantiquity. In the village I got some rough obsidian spear-heads and a large stone adze. Mr. Cooper tells me that there are, in otherparts of the island, inscriptions in stone, but wesaw none ; he describes them as Uke Japanese
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