ST. THOMAS AND ST. JOHN


on Hassel Island. On Water Island, Indian material was limited
to the northwestern bays: Ruyter, Tamarind Tree, Elephant, and
Landing bays (Fig. 4). At Ruyter Bay a sherd of Botany Plain
and a hammerstone were found but no evidence of a midden de-
posit. As this bay was used as a plantation during Danish times,
any such evidence may have disappeared years ago.
 At Elephant Bay, located between Tamarind Tree and Landing
 Bays, a sherd of Botany Plain was found on high land at the north
 end of the bay and another on the sandy low land at the south
 end. The latter was near a place of recent disturbance but, again, no
 village debris was to be found.
 At Tamarind Tree and Landing Bays the situation was quite
different. In the sand ridge behind these bays, in 1934-35 Julien
(Buxton, Trevor and Julien 1938) uncovered about twenty human
burials. These he reinterred after removing the Indian specimens
for which he was searching. In 1936 the burials were redug by
Trevor and Julien, at which time only parts of eight individuals
were located "despite the expenditure of much energy in shifting
several tons of sand under which they then lay ."
 At the eastern end of Landing Bay, the Bullens found piles of
sand, a few scraps of human bone, two Botany Plain sherds and
a Strombus shell hand hammer. At the northeastern inner or land-
ward side of Tamarind Tree Bay was found a few sherds of Botany
Plain and piles of sand similar to those at Landing Bay. These
piles of sand were Trevor and Julien's spoil piles.
 According to Julien (Buxton, Trevor and Julien 1938) the
skeletons were "at a depth of from two to three feet below the sur-
face, in direct association with shells of the giant conch (Strombus
gigas) and other gasteropods (sic), small animal bones, probably
those of the Indian coney (Capromys brachyurus), lumps of a red
ochreous substance, stone implements and pottery ."
 Julian is certainly referring to midden material. The horizontal
areas involved at both Tamarind Tree and Landing Bays are rather
small. These sites must have been occupied for only a short period
of time or we would have found more shells, etc., present than was
the case. Some of the pottery and photographs of sherds and of
some of the stone tools were sent to Hatt who discusses these speci-
mens in an article accompanying the one on the skeletal remains.