210 ON INSTINCT IN MAN AND ANIMALS. 



able very soon to acquire a knowledge of the district 

 that seems marvellous to a civilized man ; but my own 

 observation of savages in forest countries has convinced 

 me, that they find their way by the use of no other 

 faculties than those which we ourselves possess. It 

 appears to me, therefore, that to call in the aid of a 

 new and mysterious power to account for savages 

 being able to do that which, under similar conditions, 

 we could almost all of us perform, although perhaps 

 less perfectly, is almost ludicrously unnecessary. 



In the next essay I shall attempt to show, that much 

 of what has been attributed to instinct in birds, can be 

 also very well explained by crediting them with those 

 faculties of observation, memory, and imitation, and 

 with that limited amount of reason, which they un- 

 doubtedly exhibit. 



