Ontario Sessional Papers, 1897-98, . (J ft detp in centre). Ahoendo^ Ofsutry. — Fip. 47. * by scores daily, many bodies were buried in the earth, and in thesnow by the priests and their men, and it may have been that,those corpses which had only the snow for a covering werecollected in the spring, and some of them at least re-buried in this the o-suary had been partly opened some years ago,* the bones nearthe surface were quite fragmentary, but even at n depth of from fourto five feet they were much decayed. This may have been owing tothe sand}- nature of the soil which admits ai
Ontario Sessional Papers, 1897-98, . (J ft detp in centre). Ahoendo^ Ofsutry. — Fip. 47. * by scores daily, many bodies were buried in the earth, and in thesnow by the priests and their men, and it may have been that,those corpses which had only the snow for a covering werecollected in the spring, and some of them at least re-buried in this the o-suary had been partly opened some years ago,* the bones nearthe surface were quite fragmentary, but even at n depth of from fourto five feet they were much decayed. This may have been owing tothe sand}- nature of the soil which admits air as well as water muchmore readily than loam or clay does. The degree of surface depression * Ap is f o often the , this pit was supposed to have bepn the repository of treasurehidden by the missionaries on their hasty retreat from Ahoendo^ ! 41 ()l Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 1). A. 1898 was sucli as to indicate tlie burial of the bones of four hundred orfive hundred per.^ons, but on account of the disturbance already re-ferred to, no certainty coul
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