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  PRIMEVAL 
  MAN. 
  

  

  proof 
  than 
  the 
  dwelling-place 
  of 
  their 
  chil- 
  

   dren. 
  So 
  again, 
  Sir 
  J. 
  Lubbock 
  quotes 
  the 
  

   testimony 
  of 
  Cook 
  in 
  respect 
  to 
  the 
  Tasma- 
  

   nians, 
  that 
  they 
  had 
  no 
  canoes. 
  Yet 
  their 
  

   ancestors 
  could 
  not 
  have 
  reached 
  the 
  island 
  

   by 
  walking 
  on 
  the 
  sea. 
  Some 
  -of 
  the 
  tribes 
  

   did 
  not 
  know 
  how 
  fire 
  could 
  be 
  obtained 
  if 
  

   it 
  were 
  once 
  extinguished.* 
  Again, 
  of 
  the 
  

   Australians, 
  Sir 
  J. 
  Lubbock 
  reminds 
  us 
  that 
  

   in 
  a 
  cave 
  on 
  the 
  north-west 
  coast 
  " 
  tolerable 
  

   figures 
  of 
  sharks, 
  porpoises, 
  turtles, 
  lizards, 
  

   canoes, 
  and 
  some 
  quadrupeds," 
  &c, 
  were 
  

   found 
  ; 
  and 
  yet 
  that 
  the 
  present 
  natives 
  of 
  

   the 
  country 
  where 
  they 
  were 
  found 
  were 
  

   utterly 
  incapable 
  of 
  realizing 
  the 
  most 
  vivid 
  

   artistic 
  representations, 
  and 
  ascribed 
  the 
  draw- 
  

   * 
  "Prehistoric 
  Times," 
  pp. 
  354-5. 
  

  

  