RELICS OF POMPEII.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14447, 6 November 1917, Page 3

RELICS OF POMPEII.

FOUR. SKELETONS OF VICTIM^ '^'I'-^msbbVim^-Nr - fifififi — *^ 11 " ; SHEaBr, Aug. 28 t 'After a laipsfe of clos6\upoh*2oGO year's .sine© the -de»tanipti<Mi-<p£*.PQ^ skeletons of four of the vi&iros h^vet beeu * discovered • in- kthe f \aptual posit^aia in uwhijih . oyeytaken by jthe catastrophe*. ' [ *?Tvx>aof these victims,; appaiently^ a •* man.>^vd '.-J^e belpngyi'g^. to tlio upper clashes,. had' evidently T>eeii caught by .the showe'r>of- red-hot -stones'" ih the cloistered ;gasdeav ■ pi-; theii*- .-vi^isy while haet^Miijiic .jto, vsppk .^lejteii; ; in a ,cprner liad .been • sudden-ly buried: aiid^; throiigh >tlie .collapse of ' We-roof*. overladen ypsi vploiinic/dust. ; . 'fi,-.fi,fi..r ■■ y. . 3se*hj^ in a sits»|ig position . - • His wife -was standing immediatete^liindyhim. j Her gold earrings ;wepo : lp(uudyOfi\a t fleve^-wiith her ears, and there 3<i<e two gold rings on the fingers'? , A'tliu*^ skeletpiii was that of a ypujth huddling 'wiQi'hris face to a hole in- ■thei .gairden wall. Tlie last of -the group,Ca full-sized man, bent almost double under the av eight . of tihe suffocating debris, had •'. on- ,"a finger of the- '.ftghtyharid'-''^ . ippn •ring inset with a yprettily-ehgraved • corrieli^iP. .''-' ■ ■'.- .: ■■ fi-fi '"-.-■ fi.fi