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color of the skin is sallow, or of a nearly yellow tint ; the 

 hair is black, long, and straight, and the features well form- 

 ed. There is no difference between her appearance and that 

 of the women common to that part of the country. She is 

 pleasant to look at, well developed, and modest. Their only 

 dress is a loose cloth, and they eat flesh, but feed chiefly on 

 roots and honey. They have no fixed dwelling-places, but 

 sleep in any convenient spot, generally between two rocks, or 

 in caves near which they happen to be benighted. They 

 make a fire, and cook what they have collected during the 

 day, and keep the fire burning all night for warmth, and to 

 frighten away wild animals. They worship certain local di- 

 vinities of the forest Rakas, or Rakari, and Pe, after whom 

 the hill is named Pe-malei. The woman cooks for and waits 

 on the man, eating only after he is satisfied. 12 A,3fay 27, 

 1875, 73. 



BOYD DAWKINS's " CAVE HUNTING." 



According to a review by the Athenaeum of Boyd Dawkins's 

 "Cave Hunting," the evidence of the cave deposits indicates 

 the following facts, as far as our knowledge extends : " The 

 climate and geography of Europe in ancient times were al- 

 together different from those of the present day. We may 

 infer, with a high degree of probability, that a paleolithic 

 people migrated from the East into Europe along with the 

 peculiar pleistocene fauna in the preglacial age, and disap- 

 peared with the same arctic mammalia, leaving behind them 

 as their representatives the Esquimaux, who were cave-dwell- 

 ers, and occupied themselves in hunting and fishing, and sup- 

 porting life in a rigorous climate. 



"An indefinite interval of time, which can not be measured 

 by years, separated those paleolithic peoples from their suc- 

 cessors of the prehistoric times. These latter, or neolithic peo- 

 ple, arrived also from the East along with cereals and domes- 

 tic animals. They were cave-dwellers, and also used caves 

 as sepulchres, and we know more of them than of their fore- 

 runners. They were non-Aryan, swarthy (melanochroi), doli- 

 chocephalic, and short, and distinguished in many instances 

 by platycnemism (a peculiar flattening of the shin). They 

 were pastoral, herdsmen and farmers ; and, when caves were 

 not to be obtained, they buried their dead in chambered 



