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Show Island Home of a Vanished People. Tie- channel islands, which He ff the coast of Southirn California, are rich in treasures for the anthropologist and the archaeologist Though all the islands is-lands or the grup nr..- within eighty Dalles of the shore o- California they ale solltarj and unfrequented, and not more nam iut people visit them during o year. Bach Island has its tradition as t. former occupation b lndlaita, and there are many traces left of them A Portuguese Portu-guese navigator who sailed up the coast of Calliornla In 'H stopped tor u day or two at each of the Channel islands, md bean testimony that on these Islands was a "vigorous und lust rate o? nt-tiv. nt-tiv. s. who thronged the shore of the little lit-tle bays and headlands" and gated In wornl. r ut the nails of the navigators. Today the Islands stand as they did SjQ years an.., but the natives are represented repre-sented only by stone Implements, wampum wam-pum and human bones. The most Interesting of these Islands from many points of view is St Slcbolaa As far back a tin memory of any one hi Southern California runs Us valleys and hillsides have been .lotted with hun-dreds hun-dreds of whit.- skeletons, Btrange utensils uten-sils of serpentine, sandstone and steatite are found there with the human bones. Measurements of skulta, thighs and leg anil arm bones have been made by sep ntists, and the general opinion Is that the race which swarmed over tin-Island tin-Island was much larjp-r than any civilized race of today and that some of the tribes must have b.-.-n seven fet three Inches tall. The skulls of this extinct 1 tribe often meaouie several Inches more than of large skulN today. Many of i those found on the Island how that their possess,, ri must ha'c met death by means of a club or battle axe. No one has ever found a skull on St. Nicholas Island which shows the mark of a bullet. There are many collar and shoulder ! boms crushed, which shown that the wcupoti which dealt the blow must have been a Stout club of some kind. As the favorite weapon of tho Aleutian Isles' savage Inhabitants o' a century or more ago was a club or bludgeon, the stray tradition that the Inhabitants of these Isles came down and comoletely destroyed des-troyed the Inhabitants of the Channel Islands seem to have a semblance of |