In a very thick part of the woods is an ancient burial place. It consists of eight vaults made of pine or cedar boards closely connected, about eight feet square and six in height. The top was covered with wide boards sloping a little so as to convey off the rain. The direction of all of these vaults is east and west. The door on the eastern side has wide boards decorated with pictures of men and other animals. On entering we found in some of them dead bodies carefully wrapped in skins and tied with cords of grass and bark, lying on a mat in a direction east and west. The other vaults contained only bones, which were in some of them piled to the height of four feet.

On the tops of the vaults and on poles attached to them hung brass kettles with holes in their bottoms, baskets, bowls, sea shells, skins, pieces of cloth, hair, bags of trinkets and small bones as offerings of friendship or affection. The whole of the walls as well as the door were decorated with strange figures cut and painted on them. There were also several wooden human images. Some were so old and decayed as to have almost lost their shape. These were all placed against the sides of the vaults.