Note 47 — Chapter XV · NATIVE CULTURE IN PRE-CHRISTIAN TIMES
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“These bodies, enveloped in mats, are placed on a heap of stones or on a kind of wooden structure, the head being turned towards the sea. Now, as all the population live round the island, dried skeletons are to be met all along this coast, and no one seems to take any notice of them.”—Letter from Brother Eyraud—Annals of the Propagation of the Faith, Jan. 1866.