CHAP. XIII. SAVAGES NOT WHOLLY UNTAUGHT. 



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from north to south took inventions with it from the same 

 original source. Where that source may have been La 

 probably indicated by another pair of bellows, which we 

 observed below the Victoria Falls, being found in Central 

 India and among the Gipsies of Europe. 



Men in remote times may have had 

 more highly-developed instincts, which 

 enabled them to avoid or use poisons; 

 but the late Archbishop Whately has 

 proved, that wholly untaught savages 

 never could invent anything, or even 

 subsist at all. Abundant corroboration 

 of his arguments is met with, in this 

 country, where the natives require but 

 little in the way of clothing, and have 

 remarkably hardy stomachs. Although 

 possessing a knowledge of all the edible 

 roots and fruits in the country, having 

 hoes to dig with, and spears, bow^s, and 

 arrows to kill the game, — we have seen 

 that, notwithstanding all these appli- 

 ances and means to boot, they have 

 perished of absolute starvation. 



The art of making fire is the same in 

 India as in Africa. The smelting furnaces, 

 for reducing iron and copper from the 

 ores, are also similar. Yellow haematite, 

 which bears not the smallest resemblance 

 either in colour or weight to the metal, is 

 employed near Kolobeng for the pro- 

 duction of iron. Malachite, the precious 

 green stone used in civilized life* for 

 vases, would never be suspected by the 

 uninstructed to be a rich ore of copper, and yet it is 

 extensively smelted for rings and other ornaments in 



