358 HUMAN REMAINS. 



BrmigUovcr . . . 1,242,765 

 counting those required for tent-cloths, bags, 

 etc. ; this therefore would give us 139,000 x 20 2,780,000 

 But the deerskins are fit for clothes only during 

 2 months in the year, and as it will be observed 

 that the majority of the animals enumerated 

 above are not fit for food, others must have been 

 killed in sufficient quantities to serve as food for 

 10 months. Assuming that an Indian requires 

 one every month, which is probably well within 

 the mark, we shall again require 139,000 x 10 

 (the number of months) . . . 1,390,000 



Making therefore a total of .... 5,412,765 



And assuming that one animal out of twenty is killed by 

 the Indians, we shaU have 108,000,000 to 139,000 Indians, 

 or about 750 animals to each man ; besides which, a further 

 allowance must be made as before on account of man's greater 

 longevity. Dr. Kae, who has had so such experience in these 

 matters, has been good enough to look over the above calcu- 

 lation, which he considers fairly estimated, but it has of 

 course no pretensions to accuracy. 



Lastly, it may be observed that man is less likely to be 

 drowned by sudden river floods, than is the case with other 

 land mammalia;* and, on the whole, therefore, it is natural 

 that the bones of animals would be far more common in these 

 gravels than those of man. 



It must not, however, be supposed that the latter are alto- 

 gether absent. Without relying on the human lower jaw, 

 stated to have been found in the pit at Moulinguignon, and 

 about which there has been much discussion and difference 

 of opinion, I may instance the discovery of human remains 



* See, for instance, Bakie, Exploring Voyage up the Kwora, p. 215. 



