Show ancient relics sig S marguieri Mar ghieri the well known archaeologist discovered and explored a hermetically sealed cave at an elevation of nearly feet on the east em side of the sierra madre mountains in mexico about miles south of deming between Cara litos and casa grande about two years ago the floor was nearly smooth the sides rough and rugged and the vault covered stalactites in the far end of the cavern were found besic bated human bodies i the bodies were in a sitting posture with the hands crossed on the breast and the approaching the chin with the head inclined forward they were carefully shrouded in their burial garments and placed facing the rising sun the male and female were seated side by side the older child a boy was at the right of the father and the younger child a girl at the left of the mother in addition to the funeral shrouds the littly girl was enveloped in the sidn of an animal similar to the method used in ahe island of puerto ventura the bettor to preserve its tender frame the floor of the cavern and the remains were cohered with a fine dust but no footprints of man or beast could be found she bodies carried to san francisco by signer marguieri Mar ghieri and were purchased byj adavis ZD avis president of the board of trustees of the mining bureau and by him presented to the bureau no embalming process was used in the preservation of these bodies they were dried by the air alone the bodies are not like those of thein the in deans of the present day because the hands and feet are smaller than the average and the comans womans wo mans hair is brown and silken and of the caucasian type the body of the man must have weighed in life from to pounds but it now weighs only 14 pounds while the body of the woman weighs only 12 pounds in the lobe of each of the small and vail proportioned ears is a piece of hollow bamboo or reed as an ornament the woman a large forehead and well developed reasoning powers the little boy weighs but three pounds and the little girl four and a half pounds the tho body are composed chiefly of concon thair hide grasses and the bark of willows the bodies may now bo seen atthe state san co |