PHAP, VII.] 



HUNTING. 



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bulk could not be carried. The portions carried off 

 would be cut away from the larger bones. "We can 

 picture to ourselves the camp round the carcases, and 

 the fires kindled not merely to cook the flesh, but to 

 keep away beasts of prey attracted by the scent of 

 blood. The tribe assembled round, and the dark trunks 

 of the oaks or Scotch firs lighted up by the blaze, with 

 hyaenas lurking in the background, are worthy of the 

 brush of a future Eembrandt. No dogs were used in 

 the chase, and there is no trace of any other domestic 

 animal. 



The Cave-men depended mainly for their sustenance ' 

 on the supply of reindeer and the other animals men- 

 tioned above ; but when they had an opportunity they 

 attacked the animals living in the sea. In the cave of 

 Duruthy, explored by MM. Louis Lartet and Chaplain 

 Diiparc, near Sorde, in the valley of the Gave d'Oloron, 



FIG. 82. Seal incised on. Canine -of Bear, 

 Duruthy Cave, -j. 



in the Western Pyrenees, the figure of a seal is engraved 

 on the canine of a cave-bear, which has been perforated 

 for use as an ornament (Fig. 82), and a rounded frag- 

 ment of antler from Laugerie Basse carries the outlines 

 of a whale (Fig. 83), either the cachalot or sperm whale 

 (Cetodon macrocephalus) , or possibly the black fish 



