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of food-getting. As before, the natural forest 

 products roots and fruits, were gathered in, 

 but more and more time and ingenuity were 

 expended in making them palatable and in 

 drying and storing them for future use. The 

 plants in the neighbourhood, which were useful 

 for food or for their healing properties, were 

 tended and kept free of weeds, and by and 

 by seeds of them were sown in cleared ground 

 within easy reach of the camp. Animals 

 gathered about the rich food-area, and were 

 at first tolerated certain negro tribes to-day 

 keep hens about their huts, though they eat 

 neither them nor their eggs and later en- 

 couraged as a stable source of food-supply. 

 The group was anchored to one spot by its 

 increasing possessions ; and thus home-making, 

 gardening, medicine, the domestication of 

 animals, and even agriculture, were fairly 

 begun. Not only were all these activities in 

 the hands of the women, but to them, too, 

 were necessarily left the care and training of 

 the young. 



The men, meantime, went away on warlike 

 expeditions against other groups, and on long 

 hunting and fishing excursions, from which 

 they returned with their spoils from time to 

 time, to be welcomed by the women with 

 dancing and feasting. Hunting and war were 

 their only occupations, and the time between 

 expeditions was spent in resting and in holding 

 interminable palavers and dances, which we 

 may perhaps look on as the beginnings of 

 parliaments and of music-halls. 



Whether this picture be accurate in detail 



