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will find a valuable paper, with illustrated specimens of 
arrow points, &c. Those found by Mr. Green are similar to 
these I now point out to you ; but I am enabled to produce 
to you to-day, this remarkable specimen of a flint- agate-arrow 
head which was recently brought me by my nephew, Mr. 
Chaworth Musters, R.N., from the interior of South America; 
it was picked up amongst the clehris at a burial place of an 
extinct tribe, in the valley of " Bio Negro," 400 miles from 
Buenos Ayres, bones and skulls were Ipng near. This 
gentleman has but lately returned from an extraordinary 
sojourn amongst the native tribes of central South America, 
and has gone with them from sea to sea. He has lived 
amongst them for more than a year, adapted himself to their 
ways and customs, hunted and been with them as one of 
themselves ; he has studied them in their expeditions and at 
their homes, and I venture to say that when we have the 
account of the careful observations of this enterprising 
Englishman before us, we shall learn much that is new to us 
of the habits and customs of these wandering tribes, and by 
analogy, of the pre-historic races of this land. The people 
who used these arrow heads, one of which I show you to-day, 
are as a race extinct, or else exist only as an inferior 
and degenerate one in the extremity of South America, 
"Terra del Fuego." The races that occupy the hunting 
grounds formerly inhabited by the flint-arrow-head using 
natives, are those who use not the flint-arrow head but the 
stone. Lieut. Musters told me that although in their travels 
they are seldom, if ever, stationary; they made for and en- 
camped for several days in a district where material suitable 
for stone implements was plentiful. The whole party were 
employed upon this work, and he showed me some made 
and fashioned by them whilst there. They use no iron 
implement to shape them, but tool them by working or 
hammering them with another stone. They are beautifully 
