. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world : being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics . on slowly as if nothing had hap-pened, I drojiped into the long grass andstalked toward them. A shot from my rifle,at a long distance (I did not venture tooclose), acted on the tree and stones asjn-omptly as the fiddle of Orpheus, but withthe contrary effect, for the tree disappeared,and the stones and logs, instead of runningafter me, ran in the opposite direction. I was never more surjirised in
. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world : being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics . on slowly as if nothing had hap-pened, I drojiped into the long grass andstalked toward them. A shot from my rifle,at a long distance (I did not venture tooclose), acted on the tree and stones asjn-omptly as the fiddle of Orpheus, but withthe contrary effect, for the tree disappeared,and the stones and logs, instead of runningafter me, ran in the opposite direction. I was never more surjirised in my life,for so complete was the deception, that evenup to the time I fired I could have declaredthe objects before me were vegetable ormineral — anything but animal. The factwas that the cunning rascals who repre-sented stones were lying flat, with their lit-tle round shields placed before them asscreens. Some of the wild tribes of Indt« act in thesame manner. There is a well-known storyof an officer on the march, who was so com-pletely deceived that he stood close by oneof these metamorjihosed men for some time,and at last hung his helmet on a projectingbough. This was nothing more than a. (1.) XiLFFALO DANCE. (See iKiye o;i.)
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