In Tamal Land

IN TAMAL LAND

THE LAST OF THE RACE.

IN TAMAL LAND

A WOOD INTERIOR.

of California and Stanford are revealing additional clues from time to time as new deposits are discovered.
In the Marin mounds have been found mortars and pestles, queer old pipes, beads of wampum, oyster picks, skulls, and in many instances entire skeletons, while the arrow-points testify to certain warlike propensities, although on the whole they were said to be peaceful tribes.
The bows which they used with such celerity and skill were uniquely fashioned; the cord consisting of the nerves taken from a deer's back. The Marin Indians and in fact all the California

SUMMER IN THE REDWOODS.

IN TAMAL LAND

tribes, dwelt in small huts built of willows with tules or rushes, and formed by taking a few poles, placing them in a circle, and finally weaving them together to a conical point, giving, when completed, the appearance of inverted baskets.
   They were usually constructed on the banks of streams, and, being small, were easily warmed in winter.
   The aborigines' knowledge of the proper treatment of disease was very limited. Roots and herbs were sometimes used as remedies but the "sweat-house" (temescal) was the principal reliance in desperate cases.
   One of these sweat-houses was found on the Nicasio

A CHARMING DRIVE.

Rancheria, just over the Olompali Mountains.
   It consisted of a large circular excavation, covered with a roof of boughs, plastered with mud, having a hole on one side for an entrance, another in the roof to serve as a chimney.
   A fire having been lit in the center, the sick were placed there to undergo a sweat bath for many hours, to be succeeded by a plunge in the ice-cold waters of a neighboring stream.
   This treatment was their cure-all, and whether it killed or