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APPENDIX E 
So I have seen an Indian in a rusty frock-coat and a battered derby 
hat make a successful stalk on a deer which a white hunter would 
have had some difficulty in approaching. But when the ’Ndorobos 
got to what they—not I—considered close quarters, they quietly 
dropped the red or white blankets; and an Indian would take 
similar pains when it came to making what he regarded as a 
difficult stalk. The feathered head-dress to which Mr. Thayer 
alludes would be almost as conspicuous as a sun umbrella, and an 
Indian would no more take it out on purpose to go stalking in than 
a white hunter would attempt the same feat with an open umbrella. 
The same is true of the paint and tattooing of which Mr. Thayer 
speaks, where they are sufficiently conspicuous to be visible from 
any distance. Not only do the war-bonnets and war-paint of the 
American Indians and other savages have no concealing or pro¬ 
tective quality, as Mr. Thayer supposes, but, as a matter of fact, 
they are highly conspicuous ; and this I know by actual experience, 
by having seen in the open savages thus arrayed, and compared 
them with the aspect of the same savages when hunting. 
