But I was able to take away some thirty well-preserved skulls and a few complete skeletons, the bodies having dried up in the saltpetre.

Some clothing with feathers woven in, and some bits of obsidian and of blue thread were found, but no weapons or utensils.

According to the miner, who appeared to be trustworthy, he had excavated more than a hundred corpses.

They were generally found two and a half feet below the surface, and sometimes there were others underneath these.

With many of them he found ear ornaments made of shells, such as the Tarahumares of to-day use, besides some textile made of plant fibre, and a jar with beans.
A few months later at Aboreachic (Tarahumare: Aoreachic = where there is mountain cedar) I examined a burial-cave in which the dead were interred in a different manner from that described before.