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on their graves must be somewhat different, as that property is exposed full to view and often close to the 

 village. In Greenland, to this day, the civilized Eskimo destroy the Kayak-cover on the death of its 

 owner, but keep the wooden frame. You will find some account of this and similar customs in Mr. Sprout's 

 ' Scenes and Studies of Savage Life ' (among some of the Vancouver Indians), and in a review of that work 

 in the September Number of Murray's ' Journal of Natural History and Travel.' Trophies of war are with 

 these Vancouver Indians exhibited in full sight of all the village, so that all may see them and have their 

 hatred of their enemies kept alive. The coast-tribes, going to war in canoes, take the natural trophy the 

 head of their enemy. The horse-tribes, travelling great distances on horseback, could not of course take the 

 heads, as these would be rather inconvenient to carry home ; and accordingly the scalp is alone taken. 

 Both trophies, however, are treated in the same manner, viz. fastened to poles in front of the village. 

 It is curious how the barbarous mind among all people and in all ages is the same the fastening of heads 

 above Temple Bar or on Old London Bridge, in 1568, or on the poles in front of a savage village in Van- 

 couver Island in 1868 ! Have you heard of any human remains being found suggesting that Prehistoric 

 Man was addicted to war ? 



"We need not be surprised at the vast number of implements often found in old abodes or other places. 

 These (independently of the accumulation of generation after generation of flint-tool users) are often the 

 debris of the workshops of the old savage arrow-point- and spear-makers. There is a division of labour 

 among some savages; and I know that on the western shores of Vancouver certain families have the 

 monopoly of certain trades, while others follow the making of peculiar implements as a branch of business. 

 Longfellow only gives poetical expression to a known fact when he talks, in ' Hiawatha,' of ' the ancient 

 Arrow-maker, in the land of the Dacotahs,' " &c. 



Page 87, line 12. For At this read For that. 



Page 94, line 18. See M. LARTET'S paper on remains of the Musk-ox, or Musk- 

 sheep, found at the Gorge d'Enfer, ' Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc.' vol. xxi. p. 474, and 

 above, p. 280. 



Page 95, line 17. See M. GEEVAIS on Remains of the Saiga found by M. E. Piette 

 in the Cave of Gourdan, ' Mate"riaux pour 1'hist. de 1'Homme ' &c., se"r. 2, vol. iv. 

 1873, pp. 270, 271, and fig. 74 (p. 396). 



Page 97. Dr. P. BROCA has also treated of the Crania and Bones from Cro- 

 Magnon, at Les Eyzies, in the 'Transactions of the International Congress of 

 Prehistoric Archaeology, 3rd Session, Norwich and London, 1868,' 8vo, London, 

 1869, pp. 168-175. 



Pages 99, 101, &c. Worn Teeth. In a Letter dated November 20, 1868, Mr. 

 ALEX. C. ANDERSON, of Victoria, Vancouver's Island, says : 



" I may observe in regard to the worn condition of the teeth in the human remains found in the Cave of 

 Cro-Magnon, that the same effect is very noticeable among such of the Indian tribes as inhabit a dry sandy 

 locality, and whose winter provision consists chiefly of meats or fish dried in the sun*. Minute particles of 

 sand carried by the winds become incorporated with the food in the process of drying ; and hence the 



* [Similarly flat-worn teeth are observable in civilized people when the teeth are exactly opposite and fit 

 throughout, crown to crown. EDITOB.] 



