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  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  ficiently 
  appreciated. 
  It 
  is 
  impossible, 
  for 
  

   example, 
  to 
  read 
  the 
  description 
  given 
  by 
  Sir 
  

   J. 
  Richardson 
  of 
  the 
  bows 
  and 
  arrows 
  of 
  the 
  

   Eskimo 
  without 
  being 
  struck 
  by 
  the 
  admi- 
  

   rable 
  skill 
  with 
  which 
  their 
  scanty 
  resources, 
  

   and 
  their 
  limited 
  command 
  of 
  natural 
  mate- 
  

   rial, 
  are 
  turned 
  to 
  the 
  very 
  best 
  account. 
  

   The 
  throwing-stick 
  of 
  the 
  Australian 
  Savage 
  

   is 
  a 
  most 
  ingenious 
  application 
  of 
  the 
  prin- 
  

   ciple 
  of 
  the 
  lever. 
  The 
  boomerang 
  must 
  have 
  

   been 
  discovered, 
  as 
  so 
  many 
  other 
  discoveries 
  

   are 
  made 
  among 
  ourselves, 
  by 
  pure 
  accident 
  — 
  ■ 
  

   by 
  some 
  savage 
  throwing 
  a 
  crooked 
  branch, 
  

   and 
  by 
  his 
  observing 
  its 
  curious 
  and 
  unex- 
  

   pected 
  flight. 
  But 
  every 
  one 
  of 
  these 
  inven- 
  

   tions 
  and 
  discoveries 
  involves 
  and 
  exhibits 
  in 
  

   full 
  operation 
  the 
  peculiar 
  and 
  characteristic 
  

  

  