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women, though they no longer put on an apron of leaves as their real 
ordinary garment, wear it over a cotton skirt on festival-days. Among 
the amusements of a people, songs are often interesting musically, and 
it is well to take them down, not only for the tunes but also for the 
words, which sometimes throw light on old traditions and beliefs. Dancing 
varies from spontaneous expression of emotion to complex figures handed 
down by tradition and forming part of social and religious ceremony. The 
number of popular games in the world is smaller than would be supposed. 
When really attractive they may be adopted from one people to another 
till they make their way round the world. Any special variety, as of 
ball or draughts, should therefore be noticed, as it may furnish evidence 
of intercourse by which it may have come from some distant nation. 
Though the subjects of anthropological interest are not even fully 
enumerated in the present chapter, some idea may have been given of the 
field of observation still open to travellers, not only in remote countries, 
but even in Europe. In taking notes, the explorer may be recommended 
not to be afraid of tedious minuteness, whereas the lively superficiality of 
popular books of travel makes them almost worthless for anthropology.* 
In looking through the above remarks, written some years since, 
alteration has seemed hardly needful. The writer thinks, however, that 
it may be useful to call attention to the increased opportunities of 
travellers to study and obtain implements of the rudest and most 
ancient Stone Age. Up to a few years ago they could only have ex¬ 
pected to find proof of the recent use among savages of stone hatchets, 
knives, arrowheads, etc., such as in Europe are relics of ancient tribes. 
These, indeed, have been known for more than a generation not to be 
the oldest relics of the kind, but have been called neolithic or of the 
New-Stone Age, to distinguish them from the far older and lower types 
of the mammoth period, called palaeolithic or of the Old-Stone Age. 
Implements of this class after their discovery in Europe were soon 
noticed in India, and are now especially recognised as found over a 
great part of Africa. Of later years, in the islands of the South Pacific, 
* More extended accounts of the departments of the Science of Man here 
noticed, and a list of works useful to advanced students, will be found in Tylor’s 
‘ Anthropology: an Introduction to the Study of Man and Civilisation ■ 
(Macmillan and Co., 2nd ed., 1889). [Editors.] 
