CHAP. VIL] RELATION TO THE ESKIMOS. 235 



Near one a stone cooking-vessel was lying, and had 

 probably been buried at the same time as the body. 



"In addition to the above specimens, I was so fortunate, 

 after a long chase, as to shoot a snowy owl, an extremely 

 rare and beautiful bird, and seldom seen even in these 

 regions." 



Time and place being changed, this account would 

 stand, in its main outlines, for a description of one of 

 the refuse-heaps on the banks of the Vezere, or of the 

 tributaries of the Humber, or in the valleys of the Lesse, 

 of the Meuse, or the Adour. The bones are broken in 

 the same way, and belong to a large extent to the same 

 animals. In both are the remains of the reindeer, 

 musk sheep, Arctic fox, Arctic hare, grouse, and snowy 

 owls, as well as traces of whales and seals. The differ- 

 ences are merely those resulting from the fact that 

 the Eskimos live, to a very great extent, upon marine 

 animals, while the Cave-men were surrounded by the 

 rich and varied fauna inhabiting Europe in the late 

 Pleistocene age. 



The rarity of human bones in the refuse-heaps of 

 the Cave-men is satisfactorily explained by the abun- 

 dance of the hyaenas, which would inevitably eat up any 

 human body left insufficiently protected. The few cases 

 in which fragments of the human skeleton have been 

 found in the refuse -heaps of the Cave-men, coupled 

 with the absence of any well-authenticated case of an 

 interment, renders it very probable that they cared as 

 little for their dead as the Eskimos, who leave them 

 covered up with a few slabs of snow, to be eaten up by their 

 dogs and foxes, with the greatest indifference. Captain 

 Parry was informed by a friend of a deceased Eskimo at 

 Igloolik, that when he left the huts " with his wife, a 



