if it had contained a large fang. This skull, too, was also much damaged
on one side, where it had rested on some burning matter--evidently lava
or lapilli. The skull measured longitudinally 48 cm. and was 23 cm.
broad. Seen from underneath it resembled a much elongated lozenge.

Although I searched a great deal I could not find the lower mandibles of
these two skulls, nor loose teeth--but many indeed were the fossilized
fragments of bones of other animals strewn all over the hill-top. I found
up there quite a sufficient quantity to make the summit of that hill look
of a whitish colour. That was why I had been attracted to it at first
sight, and had climbed it in order to discover why it was so white. One
immense bone--fractured--was the pelvis of the larger animal. Nearly all
those fossils were in terrible preservation, much damaged by fire and
water. Some were so eroded as to be quite unidentifiable.

Most interesting of all to me were two smaller skulls--one of a mammal
not unlike a leopard or jaguar, the other of an ape or perhaps a
primitive human being. The latter cranium, like all the others, had one
side completely destroyed by hot lava, which in this instance had also
filled up a considerable portion of the brain-case. The human skull was
small and under-developed, no sutures showing; the forehead extremely low
and slanting, almost flattened, with the superciliary region and glabella
very prominent. One of the orbits (the right) was badly damaged. The
left, in perfect preservation, was oval, very deep. The form of the
palate was of a broad U-shape--abnormally broad for the size of the
head. The upper jaw was fairly high and prominent, whereas the zygomatic
arch on the left (the right was destroyed) was not unduly prominent--in
fact, rather small and less projecting than the supra-orbital region. Of
the nasal bone only just a fragment remained. The brain-case was small
but well-rounded at the back, where it had comparatively a fairly good
breadth behind the auditory meatus.

In my anxiety and enthusiasm, I used up, in photographing the first skull
I found, the only two photographic plates which remained that day in the
camera I had brought with me up there. In order to obtain a fuller view
of the skull on the negatives I placed it on a rudimentary stand I
constructed with broken branches of a tree. The sun had already set when
I discovered the two smaller skulls, and in any case I should not have
been able to p