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cudos, mentioned by the intelligent observer Prince 

 Maximilian of Neuwied,* and a village on the upper 

 Yupura, inhabited by the Mirenhas, and described 

 by Martius,t left upon the travellers a grisly impres- 

 sion of their brutal degradation. This impression 

 might be further strengthened if we could inspect 

 a hutted encampment of the Obongo or the Doko. 



It has been observed that the rudest savage is in 

 a condition to show pity and loyalty to his own 

 fellows. Thus, for example, in the winter of 1881-82, 

 when some Fuegians were exhibited in Europe, 

 one of them fell sick, and was cared for by his 

 savage companions with affection, and even with 

 a certain appearance of tenderness. But, as we 

 have seen, anthropoids take care of and defend the 

 members of their family in the same way, and 

 display mutual dependence and loyalty ; this has 

 been especially noticed in the case of several orang- 

 utans which have tended each other. Love for 

 their young, and not rarely love for their mates 

 expressed in the strongest manner, is, speaking 

 comparatively, deeply rooted in the animal world. 

 It is well known that both rude and civilized peoples 

 are capable of showing unspeakable, and as it is 

 erroneously termed, inhuman cruelty towards each 

 other. These acts of cruelty, murder, and rapine 

 are often the result of the inexorable logic of 

 national characteristics, and are unhappily truly 

 human, since nothing like them can be traced in 



• Beise nach Srasilien, ii. 177 : Prankfurt-am-Main, 1821. 

 f Beitrdge zur Mthnographie und Sprachenkvmde Amerikas, etc. , 

 i. 534 : Leipzig, 1867. 



