Several other magnificent trees grew around the hallowed spot.
Mounds were raised as they are at home, but all lay north and south, the heads apparently north.

The graves of the sexes were distinguished by the various implements which the buried dead had used in their different employments during life; but they were all broken, as if to be employed no more.

A piece of fishing-net and a broken paddle told where a fisherman lay.

The graves of the women had the wooden mortar, and the heavy pestle used in pounding the corn, and the basket in which the meal is sifted, while all had numerous broken calabashes and pots arranged around them.

The idea that the future life is like the present does not appear to prevail; yet a banana-tree had been carefully planted at the head of several of the graves; the fruit might be considered an offering to those who still possess human tastes.