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* am I to starve while my sister has children 

 whom she can sell ?' 



Lubbock, in his great work on * The Origin of 

 Civilisation,' cites hundreds of instances of savage 

 rudeness and simplicity which seem almost in- 

 credible to one accustomed all his life to types of 

 human character such as are found in Europe and 

 America. For instance, ' when the natives of the 

 Lower Murray first saw pack-oxen, some of them 

 were frightened and took them for demons with 

 spears on their heads, while others thought they 

 were the wives of the settlers, because they carried 

 the baggage.' Speaking of the wild men in the 

 interior of Borneo, this writer says : ' They live 

 absolutely in a state of nature, neither cultivating 

 the ground nor living in huts. They eat neither 

 rice nor salt, and do not associate with each 

 other, but rove about the woods like wild beasts. 

 The sexes meet in the jungle. When the children 

 are old enough to shift for themselves, they usually 

 separate, neither one afterwards thinking of the 

 other. At night they sleep under some large 

 tree whose branches hang low. They fasten the 

 children to the branches in a kind of swing, and 

 build a fire around the tree to protect them from 

 snakes and wild beasts. The poor creatures are 

 looked on and treated by the other Dyaks as wild 

 beasts.' Lubbock sums up his conclusions on the 

 morality of savages in the following pathetic 

 acknowledgment : ' I do not remember a single 

 instance in which a savage is recorded as having 

 shown any symptoms of remorse ; and almost the 



