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what he has himself done and seen but what he has heard — 
of the doings and experiences of others. These conver- ii 
sations the Redman, whose memory is taxed but by feng ‘ 
subjects, recolle€ts in astounding detail, and turns to < 
account when occasion arises. And the place of maps is . 
largely supplied to the same people by the wonderful — 
training of their minds in observing the natural features ‘ 
of their country. A Redman on first seeing a map, and 
having its nature explained to him, grasps the idea of the s 
thing; and, often, picking up a stick, he can trace on =a 
the sand a very fairly accurate diagram of neighbouring — 
parts into which he has never been but of which he has — 
heard. “ Tunamanuksa” ‘‘a piéture of the rivers’—he 
says he has made. After all literature and the arts are 
not as essential to a well rounded human life as we are 
apt to imagine, “ 
It was once my fortune to wander on a mountain's 
on which, owing partly to its isolation and partly to its a 
peculiar physical charaéters, almost each p.int was ; 
new to science. Having from childhood taken delight | , 
in searching for each English plant new to me but 
certainly not to science, I had been fitly prepared to 
experience on that mountain, in a degree which can not 
fall to the lot of most men, the greatness of the increase — 
of delight of moving for a time among surroundings — 
entirely new and unexpeéted, Some such feeling makes _ 
another of the unspeakable delights of travel through a 
new and unknown country. And of that delight, I drank — 
deeply that afternoon after crossing the Ireng river. " 
The country was as has been said unusually beautiful; 
and each of its beauties unfolded itself to us in all the | 
greater glory because of its unexpe€&tedness. This feeling a 
