. Timehri. Thk Mound on the Savaxxa. :; Excavating thk Abaiiy Mound. A Remarkable Mound Discovered in British Guiana. 25 any of the existing tribes. The fact that plantain and pine-apple plantswere growing on the mound might be thought evidence that they were notvery ancient, but this in reality has no bearing whatever as the cultivated,plants might have been accidentally dropped there by travellers or bywandering negro fishermen or hunters. Moreover, many of these knollsare regular camping grounds for negro wood-cutters passing up and downthe river and temporary sheds or benabs are of
. Timehri. Thk Mound on the Savaxxa. :; Excavating thk Abaiiy Mound. A Remarkable Mound Discovered in British Guiana. 25 any of the existing tribes. The fact that plantain and pine-apple plantswere growing on the mound might be thought evidence that they were notvery ancient, but this in reality has no bearing whatever as the cultivated,plants might have been accidentally dropped there by travellers or bywandering negro fishermen or hunters. Moreover, many of these knollsare regular camping grounds for negro wood-cutters passing up and downthe river and temporary sheds or benabs are often erected upon them. Itmight very well happen that such people should leave traces of theiroccupancy behind them and as the plantain trees were less than sixmonths old and the pine-apples less than a year their presence provesnothing, except that they led me by merest chance to a very interestingdiscovery. My conviction that these long-forgotten inhabitants antedated theexisting tribes and were distinct from them is based on the following
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