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— — — w - — ' - — - - ^ —---^ WWVIfount), as lie anticipated, a mausoleum about thirty inches deep and of similar width, and between bix and seven fed long. The perpendicular sides were neatly constructed of flat stones of almost uniform thickness. The tomb was covered, the large flagstones resting on the smooth wall. The birch bark bore evidence of the most perfect sewing, as if done by the latest improved Singer,and was placed above the flagstones, forming a tight covering over the sepulchre. The flag-stones being removed and the cavity searched, Farrell was rewarded by finding the remains, which consisted of a well-preserved skull with teeth intact. Half the petrified scalp covered the dome of thought; abo the thigh, pelvic ami other bones, pieces of ribs un'l spinal column ; the bone-liandles and parts of blades of two knives, and a peatyflooking subslauce, which proved to be the remains of the seai-okins in which the body was loviDgly wrapped by the sorrowing relatives
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St Johns Evening Telegram
St Johns, Newfoundland, CA
Tue, Nov 01, 1887
Page 4
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Benson H.
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