Traiim'tion SlmlieH W 



even to tlie conclusion of the journey and the printing 

 [of the maps, it \h all there, tersely {^iven, with just the needful diajfruins and 

 sketches. Many are the mechanical 'd<Kli;t'H,' here ^'iven; of such (Jalton 

 never wearied. He had watclied craftsmen in all tlu' KiikIs through which he 

 I had travelled and he never tired of experimenting and of model-making'. And 

 much of this he has used in his Arf of Travel. The reader of his .South 

 African hook will recognise also the iiidiviilual experiences which \r;\\i' rise 

 to .several of the hints in the present work. 



If a few foiinulae or a small amount of me;usuremenl can l>e tiiruwn in, 

 Galton will gladly provide them, 'riie following is a good illustration: 



"TuR RUSH OF AN RNKACKD ANIHAL Ih far more I'asily avoided than is usually suppoMKl. The 

 way tho Spanish hull-fighU'rs play witli th<' bull, is woll known ; any man can avoid a mere 

 licadlon^' cliarge. Even the sp^i^l of a racer which is uiKJfiiiahly greater than that of any wild 

 i|ua(lrujH-<l, iloes not exceed HO miles an hour, or four times the sptw*! of a man. The s[>ee«l of 

 an ordinary liorse is not more than 24 miles an hour; now even the fastest wild l)east is unable 

 to catch an oitlinary horse, except by crawling unobserved to his side, and springing upon him ; 

 therefore I am convinced that tho rush of no wild l)ea8t exceeds 24 miles an hour, or three 



times the spee<l of a man It is perfectly easy for a person who is cool, to avoid an animal by 



dodging to one side or another of a bush. Few animals turn, if the rush be uii"'t ' :1. The 

 buffiilo is an exception; he regularly hunts a man, and is thertifore peculiarly >\ Un- 



thinking persons talk of the f(>arful rapidity of a lion's or tiger's spring. It is nut rupul at all; 

 it is a .slow movement, as must he evident from the following consideration. No wild animal 

 can leap Um\ yards, and they all nuike a high trajectory' in their leap.s. Now think of the .speed 

 of a ball thrown or rather pitched, with just suflicient force to be caught by a person t«'n yards 

 otl"; it is a mere nothing. The catcher can play with it a.s he likes; he lia.H even time to turn 

 after it, if thrown wide. But the speed of a springing animal is undeniably the same aa that 

 of a ImiU, thrown so as to make a Hight of e<[ual length and height in the air. The corollary to 

 all this is that if charged, you must keep cool and watchful, and your chance of escape is far 

 greater than non-sportsmen would imagine." (4th Edn. p. 251.) 



While traces of the personality of Galton will be found by those who 

 knew him well on almost every j)age of the Art of Trarcl, there are passages 

 which mark unconsciously his views and the course of his development from 

 1853 to 1867. There are omissions also in later editions which tell exactly 

 the stage he had reached. 



From Uamaraland and Ovampo few if any animals, birtls or insects were 

 brought back. Galton then and in the Art of Travel considered them from 

 the standpoint of .sport and food. His li.st of instruments contains no micro- 

 scope or dissecting tools, and of books no work on natural history. The sole 

 reference to the collection of specimens occurs in the last paragraph where a 

 description is given of how to make a specimen box from a flat card (;?rd 

 Edition, 1860). There is not a word as to how to observe and record the 

 anthropometric characters, folk-lore or religious customs of savage man; 

 neither callipers, tape, nor colour standards appear in Galton s in.strumentiirium. 



' The Galton Laboratory possesses a whole series of rough motlels in card, wood or glass; 

 'Galton's Toys,' as we call them. Of the purpose of many we know absolutely nothing; others 

 were initial attempts at Galton's hyperscopc, helioatat, etc. Besides these 'Toys' are quite a 

 number of instruments chietly optical made by practical instrument makers to Galton's plans, 

 but in cert-ain cases it has so far been inipossible to determine for what purposes they were 

 intended. 



