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abraded Acton Ancient Stone Implements animals Anthro antiquity appear Arctic arrow Australia axes beds believed bones Boyd Dawkins brick earth Britain bronze brown Bushmen butt Castlebar cave celts chert chipped clay Creffield Road described Dordogne drift deposits E. B. Tylor Ealing Common edge Esquimaux Evans evidence fauna feet flakes flint flint implements floor foot contour Fuegians Geol geological geologists glacial glaciers gravel ground hafted Hanwell high terrace human hyæna Inst islands Journ Kent's Cavern knives land surfaces London clay Lyell mammalia mid terrace Middlesex natives Neolithic north of Ealing ochreous Palæolithic pebbles period Plate Pleistocene Prehistoric probably Prof races reindeer rhinoceros river drift rude sand savage says scrapers shaft sharp side Sir John Lubbock skin snow South spear heads specimens terrace deposits Thames Valley thick tribes weapons wood woolly rhinoceros Worthington
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Page 77 - ... inches long, to give more weight to this part; then pressing their naked feet together, they hold the stone as with a pair of pincers, or the vice of a carpenter's bench. They take the stick (which is cut off smooth at the end) with both hands, and set it well home against the edge of the front of the stone, which...
Page 77 - ... which also is cut smooth in that part ; and then they press it against their breast, and with the force of the pressure there flies off a knife, with its point and edge on each side, as neatly as if one were to make them of a turnip with a sharp knife, or of iron in the fire.
Page 149 - These poor wretches were stunted in their growth, their hideous faces bedaubed with white paint, their skins filthy and greasy, their hair entangled, their voices discordant, and their gestures violent. Viewing such men, one can hardly make oneself believe that they are fellow-creatures and inhabitants of the same world.
Page 181 - ... undoubted historical probability, not to say certainty, that he is the direct descendant of some naked and bestial savage, whose intelligence was just sufficient to make him a little more cunning than the Fox, and by so much more dangerous than the Tiger? Or is he bound to howl and grovel on all fours because of the wholly unquestionable fact, that he was once an egg, which no ordinary power of discrimination could distinguish from that of a Dog? Or is the philanthropist or the saint to give...
Page 192 - History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another, itself but temporary. Truly the imago state of Man seems to be terribly distant, but every moult is a step gained, and of such there have been many.
Page 9 - Let all that pleased, and yet may please, Be buried with the dead. ' Beneath his head the hatchet hide, That he so stoutly swung ; And place the bear's fat haunch beside — The journey hence is long ! ' And let the knife new sharpened be That on the battle-day Shore with quick strokes — he took but three — The foeman's scalp away ! ' The paints that warriors love to use, Place here within his hand, That he may shine with ruddy hues Amidst the spirit-land.
Page 180 - At the same time, no one is more strongly convinced than I am of the vastness of the gulf between civilized man and the brutes ; or is more certain that whether from them or not, he is assuredly not of them.
Page 149 - The inhabitants, living chiefly upon shell-fish, are obliged constantly to change their place of residence; but they return at intervals to the same spots, as is evident from the piles of old shells, which must often amount to many tons in weight. These heaps can be distinguished at a long distance by the bright green colour of certain plants, which invariably grow on them.
Page 114 - Territory, p. 92. life, could not possibly tope for happiness after death. This curious idea is also found among the Esquimaux, Hall tells us that they tattoo " from principle, the theory being that the lines thus made will be regarded in the next world as a sign of goodness*." It seems to the Veddahs the most natural thing in the world that a man should marry his younger sister, but marriage with an elder one is as repugnant to them as to us. Among the Friendly Islanders the chief priest was considered...