Note 19 — Chapter I · The Stone Age: its Duration and its Place in Time.
N. D'Anvers translation
A short time before his tragic end, the noble and patriotic Gordon sent to Cairo three hatchets or stone wedges found amongst the Niams-Niams, who said they had fallen from Heaven, and who worshipped then with superstitious rites (Bull. Institut Égyptien, 1886, No. 14).