244 PAPERS RELATING TO ANTFIROPOLOGV, 



as in the illustration, lie neglects to put any in at all. Tic lias examined 

 the method of coupling, for it is carefully shown in one of the figures, 

 though in another a thickened line indicates this arrangement. 



It is an extraordinary thing to watch lum put the letters on the tender 

 and baggage cars. He must make these entirely from memory, yet he 

 never strikes it as they sliouhl be, for it is quite evident that his com- 

 binations do not agree with the actual abbreviations used by the rail- 

 way companies; yet Choh writes these on precisely as if he were posi- 

 tive as to their correctness, and we nnist own that the form of the ma- 

 jority of his capitals is not bad. He invariably, however, makes his 

 great J's after this fashion,!,, and nearly always turns his capital Ws uj)- 

 side down. Often he places the oblique bar across the door of the bag- 

 gage car, with a window above it, and I see in one of the drawings, he has 

 adopted the elevated plan of brakes seen in this class of cars. Tlere, 

 again, however, it is quite clear that he has not mastered the use of this 

 contrivance, perhaps one of the simplest in use of all the gearing em- 

 ployed upon a train of cars. The perspective for the wheels, and the 

 proper way of drawing them upon the oi)posite rails, is another weak 

 l)oint, which he endeavors to conceal by filling it in with the shadow. 



These are the leading points which occur to me for criticism in this 

 drawing, that, taken as a whole, is truly a wonderful piece of work for 

 one of these people. Wiien we come to consider really how low they are 

 in the scale of civilization, it is an astounding production. About 

 Wingate, here, the majority of these savages live more like bears than 

 men, sheltered as they are, summer and winter, in the low, rude 

 "shacks," which they build of lindjs and twigs of trees on the hill-sides. 



Moreover, it is not as if this man had the o|)portunity of studying a 

 locomotive every day of his life, for the railway station is fully three 

 miles from his Indian home, and there is nothing else to induce him to 

 go there. 



