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SAVAGE SURVIVALS 



An Eskimo will go out and kill a seal and bring 

 it to shore near his tent. But, according to his 

 wixy of thinking, it would be a disgrace for him 

 even to pull the seal out of the water. That is 

 M^oman's work. He probably feels about work of 

 that kind much as we higher men feel about get- 

 ting out a washing or cooking our own meals. 



"WOMEN. AMONG SAVAGES, DO 

 ALL THE HARD WORK" 



The nunting of water animals is called fishing. 

 You can 't hunt fishes on horseback nor with dogs. 

 The most common method of fishing is by decep- 

 tion, by offering the fishes food or something that 

 looks like food, and then, when they come to get 

 it, arresting them by a hook concealed in the of- 

 fering. 



13. The Nature of Savages. 



Lubbock in his "Origin of Civilization" cites 

 hundreds of instances of savage rudeness and 



