'Tue light is fading, however, and 1 should' not pursue this fascinating subject any longer, my main purpose being to report news of the Expedition. But an old. patriarch of the township has just" approached bearing' in his hands weathered piece of board, and politeness. de-ands that T inspect this, He waves Vaguely round the horizon and tells me. there are somewhat similar boards in existence in eight oF ten other of the larger centres Inhabited by'his race in the more distant parts of the ranges. He directs my atten tion to what appear to be faint marke ings thereon which none of his pe0- ple have ever been able to identity and the secret of which is lost. It is most unitkely that even with my erudition shall be more successful, but upon a close scrutiny I imagine it possible just to discern traces of what at one time might' have represented arrow and the mystic but very faded letters YAWSIHT. What can they mean?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.