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43. The use of spies or scouts for the same purpose as 

 in the bee the discovery of suitable new dwelling-places 

 (Houzeau). 



44. The absence of laughter. The Veddas, we are told, 

 'never laugh' (Hartshorne). 



45. Want of facial expression ; impassiveness or charac- 

 terlessness immobility or invariability of feature. The 

 Digger Indians have a ' face void of all mental expression ; ' 

 while in the Brazilian Botokudo eyes, ' without lustre or 

 soul,' look 'staring, dull, and without intelligence* 

 (Biichner) . 



46. No specific or proper spoken language for instance, 

 among the Mincopies (Smith) and hence incapability of 

 conversation. 



47. No civilities or salutations. Thus there is ' no notion 

 of greeting, either at meeting or parting,' in the Apache 

 Indians (Biichner). 



48. Love antics comparable with those of certain birds. 



49. Even the forms of insanity in savage and semi- 

 savage races resemble those which are commonest among 

 the lower animals. Thus the running amok (or amuck, as it 

 is more usually called) of the semi-savage Malay is a pecu- 

 liarly Asiatic and barbarous form of human insanity, though 

 it is not absolutely peculiar to the East, nor to barbarous 

 races occurring occasionally in Italian sailors and other 

 European peoples. It is characterised by a craving for in- 

 discriminate murder a sort of promiscuous homicidal mania 

 and is strictly analogous to that form of ephemeral mania 

 in cattle which so frequently proves fatal to man in the 

 crowded streets of our large cities. 



50. Their wonderful power of way-finding has frequently 

 been dwelt upon by travellers a power that is unconsciously 

 exercised while it is unintelligible to and inexplicable by 

 its possessors, the savages themselves. It is based pro- 

 bably on habitual sensory impressions, involving keenness 

 of observation, a quality which in the white settlers in the 

 same regions for instance, in the Australian bush (Nichols) 

 leads sometimes to equal acquisition of the same accom- 

 plishment. On the other hand, the savage, with his supposed 



