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Show images curved out of ft bur J, darlf wood, but these images ara hideous and differ altogether from the dignified statues of tho platforms. The present inhabitants are simply tatUoed savages, who are mora than suspected to have a taste for cannibalism. cannibal-ism. They live in long, low houses, in shape like an upturned canoo, with only a single opening about two feet square, H.ESEKVEP IN STO.NE ONE OF THE PROFOUND MYSTERIES OF THE SOUTH SEAS. Recoril), of a rrehlatoric I'eopln Colossal I'lRitrea, Mimsivo Riilna and Palate Tilth IViinffil Walls The AVcmilen, oi Kastr Inland. I wholly unlike tho massive stone villages j wo have described. There may have boon wood on tho island at one time, for tho natives are well provided with '"bibs and spears, and they also use a double headed paddle which has not been observed ob-served elsewhere in tho Pacific. But, on the otber hand, they may have brought these implements with them, for they have a tradition that their great-greatgrandfathers emigrated from the island of Itapaiti, about 2,000 miles away, and just south of tho Austral group. Bo this as it may, they call their present abode Kapabui, or Great Kapa, to distinguish dis-tinguish it from what they call their former home. Cassell's Magazine. Tho Carolino islands, which are now recognized us belonging to Spain, though tho Germans tried to annex them a few years ago, form one of the largest archipelagos archi-pelagos of tho Pacific, covering a fieaarea of more than 3,0K) miles, and comprising over 500 separate fragments of land. Some of these islets are mero rocks, many are uninhabited and a few nro very populous. Excepting those at tho eastern end of the chain, and the largo island of Yap at tho western end, they have been rarely, some of them never, visited by white men, unless in the dubious dubi-ous form of "beach combers." Knsaio, sometimes called Strong island, isl-and, is about fifty miles in circumference, circumfer-ence, is of basaltic formation, has a large extent of high ground, and boasts of two excellent harbors. Tho people are reputedly industrious and peaceable for South Sea islanders and they havo a king of their own. They belong, to all appearance, to the Polynesian race, but travelers have declared that they Beem capablo of a higher civilization than tho average Polynesian. It is re-' re-' 1 ' markablo that the chiefs communicate ! ' by signs and speech not understood by j . the common people. j y LITTLE EASTER ISLAND. If wo traverse somo few thousand miles of ocean to tho very eastern outskirts out-skirts of Polynesia we shall find tho little lit-tle island called Easter island, which is barely ten miles Jong by four miles broad, which has no trees, no running water, and very little about it to attract settlers. It is of volcanic origin,, and one of the extinct craters is over 1,000 feet high. Yet this physically uninteresting island, isl-and, peopled by Polynesians of the fair type, such as are found in tho Society islands, is the greatest mystery of the Pacific. Pa-cific. It is covered with remains of somo prehistoric people of whom every record but that preserved in stone seems to have Tanished. '; j At the southwest end of this little island isl-and there aro to bo found tho ruins of nearly a hundred stone houses, built in regular lines and facing the sea, The walls of these houses are five feet thick i and over five feet high, built of layers of flat stones and lined inside with flat slabs. Internally the houses measure about forty feet long by thirteen feet wide, and they are roofed over with slabs overlapping like tiles. The inside walls are painted in three colors red, black and white with figures of birds and mystic beasts and faces and geometrical figures. In ono of these houses was found a curious stone statuo eight feet high and weighing about four tons, which is now in tho British museum. - .The sea cliffs near tlii ancient settlement settle-ment are carved into grotesque shapes not unlike tho paintings on tho walls, and the coast is marked with hundreds of these strange sculptures. Again, on each headland of tho island there is an enormous stone platform, built of hewn blocks of great size, fitted together without cement. They ara built on sloping ground, presenting on the seaward sea-ward side a wall face twenty or thirty feet high and two or threo hundred feet long, and on tho landward" side a wall of about three feet in height rising from a level terrace. EVIDENCES OF WORSHIP. These platforms havo evidently had to. do with tho religious practices of the early settlers, whoever they wens; for upon all of them are largo stone pedestals pedes-tals which havo supported images, and on some of them broken images are still to be seen. On one platform fifteen images were found, in size ranging from three to thirty-iivo feet in height. They are of human shape, representing the tipper part of tho body only, with arms and hands close to the sides. The heads are cut flat to allow of crowns being placed on them, which crowns seem to have been made, not of tho same mate- riid as tho statues, but of red tufa. This ban been traced to an extinct crater within a few miles of the houses, and on tho brink of. this crater a largo number of crowns wero found, finished and ready for removal before soma strange , fa to d. 'peopled the island of these ancient an-cient worshipers. Tho images themselves aro made of pray lava, which is only found at quite another crater at tho other end of the island. At this crater, called Otonli, thero aro several finished and partly finished images, just as they wero left by the workmen. It is remarkable that tho nrescnt natives have small wooden |