are hooked off by a raging bull at the further end, while the good escape across.  Like the Yokain and the Konkan, they believe it necessary to nourish the spirits of the departed for the space of a year.  This is generally done by a squaw, who takes pinole in her blanket, repairs to the scene of the incremation, or to places hallowed by the memory of the dead, when she scatters it over the ground, meantime rocking her body violently to and fro in a dance and chanting the following chorous: 

       Hel-lel-li-ly,
       Hel-lel-lo,
       Hel-lel-lu.

     This refrain is repeated over and over indefinitely, but the
     words have no meaning whatever.

Henry Gillman[54] has published an interesting account of the exploration of a mound near Waldo, Fla., in which he found abundant evidence that cremation had existed among the former Indian population.  It is as follows: 

In opening a burial-mound at Cade’s Pond, a small body of water situated about two miles northeastward of Santa Fe Lake, Fla., the writer found two instances of cremation, in each of which the skull of the subject, which was unconsumed, was used as the depository of his ashes.  The mound contained besides a large number of human burials, the bones being much decayed.  With them were deposited a great number of vessels of pottery, many of which are painted in brilliant colors, chiefly red, yellow, and brown, and some of them ornamented with indented patterns, displaying not a little skill in the ceramic art, though they are reduced to fragments.  The first of the skulls referred to was exhumed at a depth of 2-1/2 feet.  It rested on its apex (base uppermost), and was filled with fragments of half incinerated human bones, mingled with dark-colored dust, and the sand which invariably sifts into crania under such circumstances.  Immediately beneath the skull lay the greater part of a human tibia, presenting the peculiar compression known as a platyonemism [transcriber’s guess] to the degree of affording a latitudinal index of .512; while beneath and surrounding it lay the fragments of a large number of human bones, probably constituting an entire individual.  In the second instance of this peculiar mode in cremation, the cranium was discovered on nearly the opposite side of the mound, at a depth of 2 feet, and, like the former, resting on its apex.  It was filled with a black mass—­the residuum of burnt human bones mingled with sand.  At three feet to the eastward lay the shaft of a flattened tibia, which presents the longitudinal index of .527.  Both the skulls were free from all action of fire, and though subsequently crumbling to pieces on their removal, the writer had opportunity to observe their strong resemblance to the small, orthocephalic crania which he had exhumed from mounds in Michigan.  The same resemblance was perceptible in the other cranium belonging to this mound.  The small narrow, retreating frontal, prominent