THE DA WN OF MIND i8i 



the Reservation Indian of a Western State ; but 

 the savage as he is in reality, and as he may be 

 seen to-day by any who care to look upon so 

 weird a spectacle. No study from the life can 

 compare with this in interest or in pathos, nor 

 stir so many strange emotions in the mind of a 

 thoughtful man. To sit with this incalculable 

 creature in the heart of the great forest ; to live 

 with him in his natural home as the guest of 

 Nature; to watch his ways and moods and try to 

 resolve the ceaseless mystery of his thoughts — this, 

 whether the existing savage represents the primi- 

 tive savage or not, is to open one of the work« 

 shops of Creation and behold the half-finished pro- 

 duct from which humanity has been evolved. 



The world is getting old, but the traveller who 

 cares to follow the daybreak of Mind for himself 

 can almost do so still. Selecting a region where 

 the wand of western civilization has scarcely 

 reached, let him begin with a cruise in the Malay 

 Archipelago or in the Coral Seas of the Southern 

 Pacific. He may find himself there even yet on 

 spots on which no white foot has ever trod, on 

 islands where unknown races have worked out their 

 destiny for untold centuries, whose teeming peoples 

 have no name, and whose habits and mode of 

 life are only known to the outer world through a 



