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Among all these osseous fragjueuts there is uot a single human bone. 

 Our good troglodytes were not anthropophagi. They were unacquainted 

 with the savage delight of eating a vanquished enemy. I state this 

 with satisfaction, although I am not of the number of those who attach 

 great importance to cannibalism. In the eyes of a philosopher the 

 crime consists not in eating the man, but in killing him. In the latter 

 respect we are perhaps more barbarous than they, for our boasted civiliza- 

 tion, which ought to put an end to war, has only rendered it more mur- 

 derous. I do not suppose the troglodytes always lived in peace ; they 

 were obliged sometimes to tight in order to defend or increase their 

 hunting-grounds, but their weapons are those of men of the chase — 

 hunters, rather than warriors. 



Fig. 14. Fig. 18. Fiar. 17. Fig. 15. Fig. 16. 



Fig. 14. Spoon for marrow. Figs. 15 and 16. Needles. Fig. 17. A hunting scorer 

 and marker. Fig. JS. Record. 



When we review their panoply we find their most formidable weap- 

 ons, those which could be used in a hand-to-hand contlict, are few in 

 number, so we must conclude that they were pacific in their habits. 



It has been supposed that they wore no clothing, because the figures 

 of them drawn by their artists are entirely naked. But this is no proof; 

 the Greeks always represented their gods and heroes in a state of nudity. 



