THE HAIRY MAMMOTH. 29 
traveller, describes in his “Voyages,” the expertness of some 
tribes of North-eastern Asia, in drawing figures of animals 
on walrus tusks and the teeth of the sperm-whale. 
In an evident zeal to make these people a connecting link 
between man and the apes, have not some writers exagger- 
ated, on rather slight data, the degraded and savage char- 
acter of these primitive folk? 
Have not geologists also exaggerated the geological age 
of the Stone period, carrying it too far back, and also not 
bringing it near enough to historic times? In the first flush 
of the interest excited by these startling developments, 
they also have demanded too great a cold for the climate 
of Middle Europe. Associated with these Mammoth bones 
and drawings were sketches of an animal like the Irish elk, 
which historical evidence tends to show existed up to the 
fourteenth century ; of the reindeer, which Cesar refers to in 
his Commentaries, which Boyd Dawkings thinks must have 
lived in Northern Scotland as late as the twelfth century, and 
which remained in Denmark up to the sixteenth century ; of 
the bison, which still survives in Lithuania, the urus, au- 
rochs, or Bos primigenius, which is said to have lingered in 

who were taught to speak by men of the ines race who shared the land with them, or, 
as the December number of Blackwood has 
Phothropoliogie say, after man had n birth, 
One we and graced with articulate ymi 
eech. 



1d k. and could build d ld pl h 
: F gn, 
fth 
And knew most of the arts 

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1 } middens 
AICHeN-M1acens, 
eect fit but to do their superior’s bidiines. 

So an Ary REO enlighten thers, 
On the Mutes of the “Midd ens he burst with sat, 
And attempted to teach them the sylable Pa. 


The rather infantile science of the prensa he sacar peti stn into easy verse, does 
not state whether Aryan implements and r ave been found in the Kjekenmed- 
dings. But thus far has any piere of an “intermixture ‘ei two races, one so much 
higher than the other, been fou Age? We shall wait pa- 

tiently for a few pertinen t facts ; tinea in these days of equal rights, advocating 
Kjekenmedding sree b elieving that they were born with all the cir senses and 
faculties such as they w d Lapland 
allies or representatives oe later times. 

