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,r,‘ AN IDYL OF THE PACIFIC. An Island White with Skeletons on; Ex- tinct Indian Rare. On the lonely wind-swept Island of San Nicolas, eighty miles off the coast of Ven- tura County, where as far back as the memory of man runs hundreds of grisly white skeletons have dotted the valley and hillsides, local archaeologists are now busy gathering the relics of a strange, extinct race. The island is ten miles long and oval in shape, being four miles across at the widest part. Strange utensils of serpentine, sand- stone and steatite are found there among the human bones, and the island and its erst- while inhabitants have a history so curious that it is difiiult of comprehension. In 1835 the padres of Santa Barbara, learn- ing that there were but sixteen of the strange Indian race then living there,determined to rescue them from the island. They went over in a sloop and succeeded, as they thought, in ettmg all on board. At the last moment an Indian woman returned for her child, and one of the frequent storms of the Channel islands sprin ing u , the sloop was driven away without er. he sloop went on the rocks of Pomt Conception and all on board were lost. Sixteen years later Capt. George Nidever and two men went from the coast on a sloop to hunt otter off San N 1colas. On looking they were like Crusoe, astonished to discover human footprints on the sand. They saw no one, however, and a storm compelled them to put to sea. It was two years thereafter that the adventurous captain, revolving in his mind the sight of the footprints in the uncanny island, determined to go and discover and bring over the lonely woman of whom he had vaguely heard. Men accompanied him, and at length they saw on tho surf-beaten shore a woman with long tawny hair,dress- cd in a queer garb of colored birdskins and scrlliping with a bone knife the blubber of a sea . They surrounded and approached her stealthily, and although suddenly confront- ed she did not appear in the least afraid, but smiled, and then falling on her knees prayed to the sun. The wild wbman made no objection when by signs she was made to understand that she was to go with them in the boat. They reached Santa Barbara across the rough sea, and the first thing the Indian woman saw was Dr. S L. Shaw, now eighty cars old and yet living there, ridiu a torso. She had never seen nor hear of any object like it, and thought the man and horse were one, and she knelt on the shore and offered devotions to it. Two weeks afterwards the last inhabitant of rock-rib- bed tcmpest-tosscd San Nicolas, died from eating food to which she was unaccustomed, furnished by her rescuers, and the curtain fell on her strau 9. race forever. Wild dogs ha eaten her child. Her dress of rod and blue feathers, a wonderful. crea- tion of barbaric hands, was sent to the Pope of Rome. Relic hunters have gathered mor- tars, pestles, ollas, toy steatite canoes and othercuriousthmgs there forsome years past ’ and shipped them to various Eastern and European universities. Skeletons and pat ts of skeletons have also been collected in large numbers, but to-day the bones of thous- ands of Indians are scattered about there. Some lie face down, indicating that they have fallen in battle. There are so many human relics there thatSau Nicolas is known as the “ Isle of Skulls.” “The lonely island, whose highest part is but 1,010 feet above the sea,” said a resi- dent of Venturn. last night, “is noted for the high artistic class of many of its relics. Had the woman, rescued, then fifty-two years old, not died a story passing strange would no doubt have been told of the acre so long hemmed in by the waste of waters about. As it is, much of the strange story is shrouded in mystery forever. .____.__â€"__ ADVICE TO THE ENGAGED- TO THE MAN. 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