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starve while my sister has children whom she can 

 sell?" The idea! — that he should go hungry so 

 long as he had nieces and nephews w^ho could be 

 put on the market ! 



Speaking of the wild men in the interior of Bor- 

 neo, Lubbock says : 



''They live absolutely in a state of nature, 

 neither cultivating the soil nor living in huts. 

 They move about the woods like wild animals. 

 "When the children are old enough to shift for 

 themselves, they usually separate, neither one 

 afterwards thinking of the other. At night they 

 sleep under some large tree whose branches hang 

 low." 



When the natives of Australia first saw pack- 

 oxen, some of them were frightened and took them 

 for demons with spears on their heads, while oth- 

 ers thought they were the wives of the settlers be- 

 cause they carried the baggage. 



Savages cry easily and are afraid of the dark ; 

 they are fond of pets and toys; they have weak 

 wills and feeble reasoning powers; they are no- 

 toriously fickle and unreliable, and exceedingly 

 given to exaggeration of their own importance — 

 in all of these particulars being much like the 

 children of the higher races of men. 



Richard says of the Dogrib Indians: "However 

 great the reward they were to receive at the end 

 of their journey, they could not be depended on to 

 carry letters. Any slight difficulty, a prospect of 

 a good meal, or a sudden impulse to do this or 



