12 WILD TRAITS IN TAME ANIMALS. 



to the faculties which every savage hunter must 

 possess in order to be successful. First of all, he 

 must have a general knowledge of natural phe- 

 nomena, accurate and inconceivably extensive ; 

 so that when he is afield, every item among his 

 innumerable surroundings is so familiar that the 

 least unusual circumstance at once arrests his 

 attention. Next, he must have acquired, in ad- 

 dition to his general knowledge, a complete mas- 

 tery of the complex arts of tracking and stalking, 

 so that he may approach near enough to his Avary 

 game for his rude weapons to take effect. If we 

 go no further than this, we find that the untutored 

 savage in his native wilds almost comes up to 

 that formula which defines culture as ' ' knowing 

 something of everything and everything of some- 

 thing." But other gifts are required beyond 

 mere knowledge and skill. There must be an 

 infinite capacity for taking pains (which has been 

 given as a definition of genius), and also, and 

 above all, there must be a power to reason 

 accurately from the facts observed. I think that 

 many people who have spoken with contempt of 

 the mental capacity of the Bosjesmen and the 

 Black Fellow can never have estimated the men- 

 tal resources required for ordinary "spooring." 



