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hammer of green stone. Mr, J, R, Logan is of opinion 
that some of the other figures represent "fragments 
of stone axes shaped like those which are occasionally 
discovered in the Malay Peninsula, where the Malays, 
like the Javanese, believe them to be thunderbolts,*** A 
collection of these ancient implements of stone^ which 
are also found in China and Japan, where they arc vene- 
rated as relies of aneestors,t would be highly interesting 
to the speculative ethnograj^her ; as a comparison coidd 
then be made with the stone implements still in common 
use among those Papuan and Australian tribes which have 
few facihties for procuring iniplcments of iron 4 
In the islands east of Java, genuine Papuan character- 
istics are first met with on the great island of Flores or 
Mang^Yrai, where the uplands of the eastern half, at 
least, are occupied by numerous tribes of the Papuan 
race. No European appears ever to have visited the 
parts in which the wild people reside, although the Por- 
* " Journal of tbe Indian Arclupelogo," vol. v, p. 84, 
j See Von SieboM, " Arcliief voor de Beschri|Tiiig ran Japan." 
X While tliis work was going through the press the writer had an 
opportmiity of inspecting the Tliird Part of Dr. Schoolcraft*s " Indian 
Tribes an American national work now in the course of publica- 
tion, in which a representation is given (Plate xxxiii, Yig. 2) of an 
instrument apparently identical in cbaracter with lliat described in 
the " Tijdschrift/* Dr. Schoolcraft introduces it among tbe " Anti- 
quities of Massachussets and describes it as " a flesliing instru- 
ment (knife P) of the north-east aboriginal inbahitants and as 
being composed of a *' species of ' grauwacke."* A veiy correct 
representation of an Australian spear-head is giveii in Captain P. P. 
King*a narrative, and a specimen will be found in the United Service 
Museum.— G. W. E. 
