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home was along the tributaiy Atreams in the mountaiiM. Here sheltered by caves and treet iK^ manufactured axes, knives, battle dubs, and arrow and spear heads of flint and obsidion. some of which had been conveyed a long distance. Here they easily overpowered the large game^ in the deep snow. Many of them probably came to the mountains because of the mineral springs, the healing value of which their medicine men understood. Further evidence of their mountain life may be seen in the linear hiero* glyphics which indicate higher intelligence than that in the picture stories in stone along the Columbia. Strange as it may appear, however, the origin of these hieroglyphics— UKBAB HIBllOOIiYpilOS DT OAB0AI>rA OAVB now so ancient as to be almost obliterated—is as remarkable to the oldest white inhabitants as to the Indians. Yet the inscriptions, which are numerous, were so systematically arranged as to sn^trest an account of some important event or maybe a written code of ethics. Who the people were

iBones of grizzly bear broken for their marrow are in the pos*

session of George M. Geisendorfer, at Cascadia, Oregon, who obtained them in the cave nearby. In this cave may be found many evidences which remind one of the cave life of prehistoric England.