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the mother. This told its own tale of the constant 

 fear of attack in which these tribes lived, and how 

 their very existence must have often depended upon 

 their powers of concealment. A child that was given 

 to crying would, I suspect, have but very short shrift, 

 and it was a striking example of the survival of the 

 fittest. 



