1886.] 273 [Haynes. 



nesians, and to the Australians. From the fact alone it is shown 

 that mankind were well advanced in the savage state, when the 

 bow and arrow made their first appearance," p. 21 (note). Oscar 

 Peschel, however, thinks that the reason why the bow and arrow 

 were not found in use among the Polynesians at the time of their dis- 

 covery was because it had gone out of use, on account of there being 

 no large animals on their islands to hunt. They once had it, but 

 its skilful use requires constant practice. "Races of Man," p. 183. 



Let me conclude by quoting the opinion of two other eminent 

 archaeologists upon this question, whether the palaeolithic man 

 was acquainted with the use of the bow and arrow. 



John Evans, the greatest authority upon the subject of stone 

 implements, in his exhaustive and masterly treatise upon " The 

 Ancient Stone Implements of Great Britain," says : "In the river- 

 gravel deposits nothing that can positively be said to be an arrow- 

 head has as yet been found, though it is barely possible that some 

 of the pointed flakes may have served as such," p. 322. 



Gabriel cle Mortillet, the eminent lecturer in the School of An- 

 thropology at Paris, and well known as the Curator of the prehis- 

 toric department in the great Museum of St. Germain-en-Laye, 

 says : " Some palseethnologists contend that the Chellean epoch had 

 no other implement than the almond-shaped axe, chipped on both 

 sides. Up to the present time at Chelles, no other worked object 

 has been found in the ancient gravel-beds. But it would be quite 

 natural that some worked flakes should be discovered. The sur- 

 prising thing is that they have not yet been found. Indeed it is 

 impossible to make an almond-shaped axe without producing num- 

 erous flakes, bearing traces of working and having bulbs of per- 

 cussion. What is wanting is worked flints other than the axes. 

 At St. Acheul, a station which belongs to the end of the Chellean 

 epoch, and where consequently there already begins to be an in- 

 termingling of forms, stone implements, other than the charac- 

 teristic, almond-shaped axe, are extremely rare. Not even the 

 simple flakes, which must have been produced in abundance in 

 chipping the large objects, are common. The almond-shaped axe 

 of the Chellean period mostly prevails, which shows clearly that 

 it is the oldest form, and that it began by reigning as master," Le 

 Prehistorique," p. 143. 



In the beautiful work by the same author, made up of an exten- 

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