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So I have seen an Indian in a rusty frock-coat and a battered derby 

 hat make a successful stalk on a deer which a white hunter would 

 have had some difficulty in approachino-. But when the 'Ndorobos 

 got to what they — not I — considered close quarters, they quietly 

 dropped the red or white blankets; and an Indian would take 

 similar pains when it came to making what he regarded as a 

 difficult stalk. The feathered head-dress to which Mr. Thayer 

 alludes would be almost as conspicuous as a sun umbrella, and an 

 Indian would no more take it out on purpose to go stalking in than 

 a white hunter would attempt the same feat with an open umbrella. 

 The same is true of the paint and tattooing of which Mr. Thayer 

 speaks, where thev are sufficiently conspicuous to be visible from 

 any distance. Not only do the war- bonnets and war-paint of the 

 American Indians and other savages have no concealing or pro- 

 tective quality, as Mr. Thayer supposes, but, as a matter of fact, 

 they are highly conspicuous ; and this I know by actual experience, 

 by having seen in the o})en savages thus arrayed, and compared 

 them with the aspect of the same savages wlien hunting. 



