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are tipped with long pieces of hardened wood, and they, together 

 with a fragment of a bow, plainly pared by a stone scraper, but 

 almost tiny, seem to indicate that they were vised for practice by 

 children. 



These broken reeds tell a tale : the storming, or destruction 

 by surprise, of a lair of Bush people in recent time. And therefore 

 this highly finished tool dates from yesterday. Its finish contrasts 



Fig. 8. x 4- 



singularly with the rough scrapers in Figs. 133, 134, 135, 136, or 

 138. Yet the culture of the people is the same as that of which the 

 other rock-shelters give evidence. 



Associated with the scrapers, notched, lanciform and saw-like, 

 which, as I have already remarked, and as the illustrations plainly 

 show, are nearly always of a moderate size, and often small, there is an 

 admixture of much smaller ones which show no secondary trimming 

 in many cases, Figs. 135, 151, 140, whereas those of Figs. 144 and 

 149 show this kind of trimming in spite of their minuteness, as do 

 also the examples in Fig. 143. The facies is doubtless not unlike 

 that of many burins or drills of the Magdalenian period. 



