...as an ordeal by the natives. "It is about the size of a large horse bean, being somewhat more than an inch in length by three-fourths of an inch in breadth, with a very firm, hard, brittle, shining integuments of a brownish-red, pale chocolate, or nrli-gray color. The shape is irregularly kidney...

...about the size of a large horse-bean, being somewhat more than an inch in length, by three-quarters of an inch in breadth, with a very firm, hard, brittle, shining integument, of a brownish-red or ash-gray color. The taste resembles that of ordinary leguminous seeds,...

...Accompanying the shell gorget just described were two beautiful turquoise ear pendants (Plate XX., CC). These are about an inch in length by three-fourths of an inch in width at the widest part. The color is of a robin's egg blue with spots of peacock blue that make the...