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to read and write English. They can play chess, and work the 
electric telegraph, while in Queensland their skill is so great 
that they are enlisted as police. Even in their savage state 
they are skilful in painting and drawing, and their manners, 
when kindly treated, are generally found to be good and 
intelligent.* If the men of the Canstadt race, whose remains 
were found in the Spy cavern, were allied to the Australians, 
they were ycnuine men, possessing all true human capacities, 
and capable of unlimited progress and development when 
placed in favourable circumstances. 
Eraipont and Tihon have given to the scientific world an 
interesting and valuable account of the Doctor’s cavern in the 
valley of the Rona, a tributary of the Mehaigne.f This cave 
they declare has been filled with detritus from the plateau 
above, carried into the cavern through an opening in the roof. 
This gives a caution to geologists not to always assume that the 
beds of gravel and sand found in caverns in valleys were 
necessarily introduced by rivers. Numerous implements of 
bone and stone were found in the cavern. Amongst the latter 
were many Hint scrapers, which were used by the Troglodytes 
in preparing skins for clothing. The most striking thing, 
however, connected with the Doctor’s cavern is that it con- 
tained two distinct bone-beds full of the bones of wild animals. 
Now, Eraipont and Tihon maintain that all these bones were 
brought in the cave by man, and that they are the remains of 
those animals which he killed in hunting or ensnared by 
stratagem. There are several thousands of debris of animals’ 
remains in the Doctor’s cavern, which belonged to at least 
250 individual animals. In the lowest bone-bed the leading 
animals represented are the elephant ( i.e ., Mammoth), the 
rhinoceros, the megaceros, the lion, the cave-bear, the urus, the 
horse, hyaena, and wolf. In the second bone-bed the largest 
animals whose bones were present were the lion, bear, urus, bison, 
and hyaena. All these animals had been killed by man, cut up 
outside the cave, and their heads and limbs brought within the 
cavern to form the feasts of the Troglodytes who fed upon 
them.} 
* See an article on the native Australians by the Hon. J. Mildred 
Creed in The Nineteenth Century and after, January, 1905. 
t Explorations Scientifiques des cavemes de la valle'e de la Mehaigne. 
J The statement in this paragraph seems open to much doubt. It is 
hard to believe that there were the remains of 250 individual animals, and 
that they were all brought into the cave by men. The presence of the 
hyaena suggests that the cave may have been “ a hyaena den.” — Ed. 
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