as interesting to note how the sculptors of those images caught, in a
rudimentary way, the character of the subjects represented. This was
chiefly remarkable in the footprints of birds and other animals, such as
deer. They seemed particularly fond of representing deer-horns--sometimes
with double lines at an angle. That was possibly to commemorate hunting
expeditions. A frequent subject of decoration was a crude representation
of the female organ; and one a magnified resemblance, angularly drawn, of
an Indian male organ garbed in its typical decoration.

[Illustration: Weird Lunar Effect witnessed by Author.]

The face of the rock was absolutely covered with drawings, many being
mere reproductions of the same design. Some were so rudimentary that they
were absolutely impossible to identify. One fact was certain, that those
carvings had been made by men who were trackers by nature and who
observed chiefly what they noticed on the ground, instead of around
and above them. Thus, there were no representations whatever of foliage
or trees, no attempts at reproducing birds, or the sun, the moon, the
stars.

The most interesting of all, from an ethnological point of view, were the
geometrical designs. They closely resembled the incised lines and
punch-marks of the Australian aborigines, and the patterns common in
Polynesia. Concentric circles--of more or less perfection--were common,
some with a central cross of three and four parallel lines. Coils seemed
beyond the drawing powers of Indian artists. Ovals, triangles, squares,
the Egyptian cross (T-shaped), series of detached circles (these
generally enclosed within a triangle, quadrangle or lozenge) were
frequent. Even more frequent were the parallel incised lines, generally
used as subsidiary filling or shading of other patterns, such as
concentric circles, or sections of triangles or squares.

It may be noted that a certain intelligence was displayed by the artist
in dividing circles fairly accurately into four and eight sections, the
diameters intersecting pretty well in the centre of the circles. One
pattern which seemed to take their fancy was that of an oval or a circle
with a number of dots inside.

In examining the cave closely, inside and outside, I also found upon the
wall, which was simply covered with those images, some curious marks
resembling the letters H P, A P, and W [Symbol: pyramid sign; 2
concentric triangles], which seemed of a more recent date--perhap