30 REV. D. GATH WHITLEY, PRIMEVAL MAN IN BELGIUM. 
found only in Champagne, which proves that the men who in 
those far-distant days hunted the lion and other animals were 
active hunters. But of all the rock-dwellings described by 
Dupont, the cave of Goyet is the most interesting. A little 
rivulet, called the Samson, enters the Meuse near Namur, and 
on its banks, near the village of Goyet, is situated the cavern.* 
It contains five distinct bone-beds, which are packed full of 
animals’ remains. The number of bones, skulls, and teeth is 
perfectly amazing, and almost every animal of the fauna of 
Western Europe at that time is represented. In one bone-bed 
alone, the skeletons of four lions were found lying side by side. 
The largest skeleton, which was almost perfect, has been 
restored and set up for public inspection ; it measured 4 feet 
in height at the shoulder. The other animals whose remains 
were in the cave were the elephant (Mammoth), horse, reindeer, 
wolf, buffalo, hyaena, and rhinoceros, and in addition to these, the 
bones of the bear were wonderfully abundant. Lying amidst 
the remains of the hyaenas were human bones, as if Man 
himself had been devoured by these ferocious animals. Flint 
weapons were strewn about, and a necklace of shells, some of 
which must have been brought by trade from Rheims in 
Champagne, was also discovered. The other relics of Man were 
a bone harpoon of reindeer horn for spearing fish, curiously 
barbed on both sides, and a curved bone dart also made from 
the antler of a reindeer. Still more interesting than these relics 
was a bone instrument, similar to those found by MM. Christy 
and Lartet in the bone-caves of the Dordogne in the south of 
France, and called by them “ Batons of Command.”f They are 
supposed to have been the sceptres of chiefs ; this is the first 
that has been found in Belgium. It was smoothed, and pierced 
with a hole at the larger end, and the figure of a fish was 
sculptured on one side, and on the other a branch of a tree with 
leaves was engraved with wonderful skill. The valley of the 
Lesse, which Hows into the Meuse near Dinant, presents a fine 
series of limestone cliffs, which rise high above the river, and 
are full of caverns. Of those of the Mammoth Age the Tron de 
la Naidette is the most important. Dupont found that it 
contained six beds of stalagmite, beneath which, in sand and 
clay, lay the remains of hytenas, and of the bones of animals 
* There are three caves at this place ; the most important is described 
here. 
t Many of these are figured in the coloured plates of Reliquiae 
Acquitanicce. 
