NE-SAW-JE-WON 



Sketch of the Story 



A BOUT a million years ago, when in far-off Java Pithe- 

 /-\ canthropus Erectus, the Ape-man, was fumbling his 

 -^ -*- way to the man species, a river system occupied the 

 Great Lakes region, flowing from the highlands of eastern 

 Canada probably to the Gulf of Mexico. But about that time 

 glaciers, which developed far north in the Hudson Bay region, 

 started to move southward and eventually erased or buried 

 much of the record of that river. Half a million years later 

 the Peiping man, Sinanthropus, was buried in the limestone 

 caves of China, and in North America the continental ice 

 sheet reached as far south as Kansas. Then during a time of 

 genial climates the ice front retreated, and perhaps the ice 

 melted almost entirely from the region which is now the 

 United States. Vegetation followed the northward movement 

 of the ice front, and a rich soil was developed over the glaciat- 

 ed region of North America. In Europe the Heidelburg and 

 Piltdown men made their appearance, but we have no evi- 

 dence as yet that man had arrived on this continent. Then 

 some 150,000 to 200,000 years ago, when the Neanderthal 

 man was living before the ice front in Europe, the ice re- 

 advanced in North America. It covered the Great Lakes 

 region and moved as far south as southern Illinois near Cairo, 

 to a point ten miles south of the Ohio River near Cincinnati, 

 and to Beaver Falls in western Pennsylvania. North America 

 became the most icebound of continents. In the centers of 

 accumulation about the Hudson Bay region the ice is esti- 

 mated to have been from three to six miles in thickness. 



Thirty-five thousand years ago, when the Cro-Magnon 

 — the first of modern men — were hunting the mastodon in 

 southern Europe and drawing rude pictures of their kill on 



