ST. JOHN


Site 11 at Yawzie Point has no depth, is fully exposed to the ele-
ments, and has little or no fresh water supply. The site at Reef
Bay, Site 12, faces the open sea at the head of a "V" shaped embay-
ment-a naturally dangerous location for settlement, due to con-
stant potential of flooding from the sea and difficult beaching of
boats. Surface collections-a mere 13 sherds-do not encourage one
to feel that this bay-valley was attractive for occupation. The same
conditions prevail at Fish Bay, with Site 14 producing 8 sherds and
Site 15 merely 6. In contrast to the former sites, a surface collection
of 220 very small, weathered sherds was found at Ditlef Point, Site
16. As indicated earlier in this report (p. 27), however, the
site lacks any appreciable depth, as the sand and soil is thin over a
rocky foundation severely attacked by wave action. Turning to
the southwest coast, Chocolate Hole, Site 17, may have supported
some small settlement activity, but the site is so destroyed as to
make it next to impossible to judge its extent in time or space.
Site 18 at Calvary Bay, on the other hand, can almost be dismissed
as a fortuitous situation.
 Thus, it is obvious that with the exception of Site 10 at Coral
Bay, the entire coastal strip from Leinster Bay on the north,
through the Eastend-Coral Bay complex on the east, and along the
south coast certainly to Chocolate Hole, native populations did not
establish, even on a relative basis, what could be properly termed
settlements, villages, or communities. I view these sherd areas,
what few were revealed by the survey, as very temporary camp-
type sites such as might have been occupied by fishing parties on
an intermittent basis.
 On the other hand, the greatest concentration of settlement
sites is found on the west, northwest, and north as far as Francis
Bay. Herein are located the Cruz Bay Site, No. 19, the complex
of Sites 2, 3, and 4 in the Durloe area, the two Cinnamon Bay sites,
Nos. 6 and 7, and the important Francis Bay area, Site 8.
 From this rapid review several basic questions arise. First, why
did not the inhabitants of this island-early or late-occupy valleys
or bay fronts on the south and east (with the exception of the
Coral Bay Site)? Second, when no other settlements appeared in
the south or east, why was the Coral Bay Site selected and why
was it apparently abandoned? Third, why were areas such as Cruz
Bay, Durloe Bay, Cinnamon Bay, and Francis Bay settled and sus-