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30. In the same cave were found the barbed head of an arrow 
made of stag’s horn ; another neatly-made arrow-head of stag’s 
horn also, and provided with deep channels on the barbs, destined 
apparently for the reception of poison ; a large sewing-needle formed 
of the bone of a bird ; a small harpoon, which might have belonged 
to an Esquimaux, together with the following, amid other objects : — 
( 1 ) A part of the posterior canon of a stag, on which have been 
engraved two figures of animals, probably, to judge by the ungainly 
head, of the elk species : * remains of the reindeer were found in the 
same grotto. (2) The extremity of a stag’s antler broken at the hole 
by which it was suspended. The head of the animal (No. 2) is pro- 
bably intended for the bear, which at present inhabits the Pyrenees. 
The primitive race of people who executed these drawings are 
thought by M. Lartet to have resembled the Laplanders, and to 
have been people of small stature. It does not follow from this 
that their arms might not be very effective. (See Gibbon’s account 
of the invasion of the Huns.) 
31. Another very remarkable instance of the same early taste for 
drawing, and which seemed the most worthy of examination of all 
that were shown at the Paris Exhibition in 1867, is described by 
M. Lartet, the discoverer of this relic. Pie arrived soon after the 
workmen employed in excavation at La Madeleine, in Dordogne, 
had brought to light, but, in so doing, had broken the elephant’s 
tusk, on which a primitive artist has drawn with much life-like 
fidelity the figure of a mammoth, differing by its long hairy mane, and 
in other ways, from any kindred animal now existing. The drawing 
(fig. 3) is on the same scale as the original traced on the ivory. -|- 
32. Such facts, when well attested, carry conviction to the mind, 
and induce the conclusion that all the great contemporaries of 
Adam have gradually disappeared from the face of the earth ; his 
powerful intellect having proved more than a match for their 
powerful teeth and claws. But we are not furnished with con- 
clusive evidence as to the length of time which it has required to 
effect this result. 
33. To take the case of the Mammoth X thus proven to have been 
* Compare the striking resemblance to the Elk in Cuvier’s Animal 
Kingdom. 
+ Other drawings, specially a group of reindeer from Dordogne, may be 
seen in Cave-hunting , by W. Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., p. 345. 
X Schoumachoff, a Tungoose chief, about the end of August, 1790, when 
the fishing in the river Lena was over, repaired, according to annual cus- 
tom, to the seaside. Leaving his family in their huts, he coasted along 
the shore in quest of mammoths’ tusks, and, one day perceived, . in the 
midst of a rock of ice, a large shapeless block, not at all resembling the 
logs of drift-wood commonly found there. The next year, visiting the 
