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in uncivilized societies, where each tribe keeps apart 
from all other tribes, and where, even within the tribe, 
each family keeps more or less apart from all other fami- 
lies, each member of that tribe or that family is in a 
position at once to recognise any one of his fellow mem- 
bers, even though, owing to some purely accidental 
circumstance, he may never before have seen that fellow 
member, or may not have seen him for a more or less 
considerable time. 
And as it is with societies of men, so it probably is, 
making due allowance in each case for the respective 
comparative acuteness of the perceptions, with com- 
munities ot sheep or, to go still lower, of ants. In short, 
it seems not improbable that ants recognize other ants of 
their nest because they actually perceive in them the 
characteristic family features. 
The "Spanish Arawaks" of the Morooka. — In an 
earlier number of Timehri (vol. ii. pp. 108, 221 & 236) 
mention has been made of the curious and interesting 
group of people, known as Spanish Arawaks, who ex- 
clusively occupy the Morooka river above Warramoori. 
Mr. McClintoCK has lately been good enough to give 
me an account, derived from his long and close experience 
of that district, of the history of this people ; and as 
their history seems to me to be very different to what I 
had supposed and to form a curious and remarkable 
episode in the history of the colony, I transcribe it for 
the benefit of the readers of Timehri. 
" It was," Mr. McCLlNTOCK writes, " during the war 
" of independence in Venezuela that the Spaniards the 
" fathers of the present Spanish Arawaks of the Rio 
