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tomed It might of course be very desirable to 'have- such 
systematic colonization, in which the colonists would take with 
Tern every art and industry and all their domestic animals and 
ulants to some other clime; but the thing we might almost say 
L never happened ! “ Colonists/’ moreover, did not originally 
migrate per l Mum , or sail as now, from the > north te mpera e o 
* lie south temperate zone. In the absence ot the art ot navi 
Sionfthey wLt naturally by slow degrees farther ® farther 
Luth they had to pass through the tropics; and the m roduc- 
tion of cereals and domestic animals eminently suited for 
Australia Tnd even for North as well as South America, was 
not only « a matter of feet, Inh (a^far as we know) necessary. 
But ^ “ colonization ’^itself is not the original kind of migration 
?y which we can suppose the primitive men were dispersed 
over the face of the earth. Colonization, so to say, is a civilized 
that exnlorers must go first, and sometimes no colon . 
ever follow But even when they do, we also know especiay 
themore ^distant the colony-that with all our modern appliances 
fnr tmnsnort which no ancient people could possibly have pos 
£3 ...1 domestic animals of 
are onlv by very slow degrees introduced, with more or ies 
success, and sometimes very long after the colonization has 
taken place. 
19. Sir John goes on 
« The same argument applies to the horse, as the Erst horse of South 
America does not belong to the domestic race. _ 
What the precise intended value of the word « as ’ is, whmh 
T have italicised in this quotation, I confess I cannot perceive. 
hothWsfMtean^ar^uinen^wit^a'^aSonfro^the 1 admirable 
work of the late Professor Waitz of Marburg . 
“A nomadic pastoral life cannot be considered as an advance compared 
numerous^flock^anThCTS when ^attle^reedhi^^oes 
and the Kaffirs are a pastoral people to this day. im b d 
not necessarily lead to a settled life, though it is compatib e with it and 
renders it more secure if combined with agriculture It s on this icm 
bination that progressive civilization depends; separa e y ? 
little Here it may be right to mention that in the whole of America 
Peru alone, at an early period, had domesticated animals, namely, the llama 
