CHAP. VII.] 



HUNTING. 



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In Fig. 79 a group of reindeer is represented, of which 

 two are walking, while three others lie on their backs 



FIG. 79. Group of Reindeer. 



with their heads in the air. This sketch is probably 

 intended to show a successful hunt in which a portion 

 of a herd was captured. 

 Sometimes the hunter 

 ran great risk in the 

 attack of the larger ani- 

 mals, and in one figure 

 engraved on a fragment 

 of reindeer antler in the 

 refuse-heap of Laugerie 

 Basse, he has conveyed 

 to us in a few masterly lines the impression made upon 

 his mind by the charge of an elephant, trunk in air, 

 and with mouth wide open (Fig. 80). 



The Cave-men dared also to attack the wild beasts 

 which were their rivals in the chase. In a sketch in 

 the caves of Dordogne, representing the outlines of a 

 glutton, 1 we have evidence that that animal was familiar 



1 Eel. Aq., p. 209. 



FIG. 80. Mammoth charging, 

 Laugerie Basse, J. 



