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sometimes press his hand upon the wound or 

 apply grass. and leaves to stop the flow of blood. 

 The children of anthropoids wrestle with each 

 other, and chase and throw each other, just as do 

 the juveniles of human households. The gorilla, 

 chimpanzee, and orang all build for themselves 

 lodges made of broken boughs and leaves in which 

 to sleep at night. These lodges, rude though they 

 are, are not inferior to the habitations of many 

 primitive men. The Puris, who live naked in the 

 depths of the Brazilian forests, do not even have 

 huts to live in, only screens made by setting up 

 huge palm-leaves against a cross-pole (6). Some 

 of the African tribes are said to live largely in 

 caves and the crevices of rocks. This is the case 

 with many primitive men. According to a writer 

 in the Journal of the Anthropological Institute 

 of Great Britain and Ireland (January, 1902), 

 ' common forms of dwelling among the wild tribes 

 of the Malay Peninsula are rock-shelters (some- 

 times caves, but more commonly natural recesses 

 under overhanging ledges) and leaf-shelters, which 

 are sometimes formed on the ground and some- 

 times in the branches of trees. The simplest 

 form of these leaf-shelters consists of a single 

 palm-leaf planted in the ground to afford the 

 wanderer some slight shelter for the night.' 



When they sleep, the anthropoids sometimes lie 

 stretched out, man-like, on their backs, and some- 

 times they lie on their side with their hand under 

 their head for a pillow. The orang retires about 

 five or six o'clock in the evening, and does not rise 



