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sledge hammers and anvils in the forging of iron amongst other 

 tribes. I have also consulted such works on African travel as I 

 have been able to obtain by Stanley, Cameron, Pinto, Grant, 

 Schweinfurth, and Du Chaillu on this point, but can find no 

 record of stone hatchets being in use now. The lowest Bush- 

 man is thus in all probability in a stage of development 

 considerably beyond that of the men of the old stone age. For 

 how long even before the old stone age period man in some 

 type may have existed no one can say. But to put the most 

 moderate construction on this evidence as to man's high 

 antiquity upon the earth ; it is just what we should expect to 

 lind were the Evolution theory as to his origin the true one, 

 and as far as it goes it is confirmatory of that theory. 



