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and in many instances I firmly believe we are quite 

 wrong. That an animal's movements, more often than 

 not, originally arise from these disturbing influences, I 

 quite admit ; but they are not due solely to them, but 

 to the fear of consequences and results emanating from 

 reason an argument all the more in favour of their 

 intelligence being of a high order. 

 Human It is, I believe, a recognised and admitted fact that 



ver J frequently young children, or ignorant uneducated 

 people, who are ignorant of a danger show no signs of 

 fear when in the presence of it, simply because of their 

 utter unconsciousness of its existence. Though it may 

 be staring them in the face all the time they can neither 

 see nor feel it, owing to a want of intellectual develop- 

 ment, and to the obscurity and limited range of their 

 mental vision. In what other way can we account for 

 naked savages rushing recklessly to certain death 

 against a hail of bullets ? At Ahmad Kheyl, when the 

 battle was over, we found among the slain of the Ghazis 

 who led the charge several hundred who were armed 

 with stout cudgels only, while here and there many 

 boys mere children almost and a few women who 

 had also mingled in the rush, lay stretched alongside 

 their kith and kin. At El Teb, where the Hadendowas 

 came on so fiercely, similar corpses were discovered 

 among those of the warriors who fearlessly led the 

 attack. Of course fanaticism has a great deal to do 

 with this rashness, but ignorance of the effect of modern 

 rifle fire has more. For, as a rule, once savages feel it> 

 they rarely, if ever, attack a second time, and they 

 certainly do not come on with the same mad impetuosity. 

 In fact, the Hadendowas are the only tribe I know that 



