IN reading almost any account of savages, it is impossible not to admire the skill with which they use their rude weapons and implements. The North American Indian will send an arrow right through a horse, or even a buffalo. The African savage will kill the elephant, and the Chinook fears not to attack even the whale. Captain Grey tells us that he has often seen the Australians kill a pigeon with a spear, at a distance of thirty paces. Speaking of the same people, Mr. Stanbridge asserts that “it is a favourite feat on the Murray to dive into the river, spear in hand, and come up with a fish upon it.” Woodes Rogers says that the Californian Indians used to dive and strike the fish under water with wooden spears, and Falkner tells us that some of the Patagonian tribes live chiefly on fish, “which they catch either by diving, or striking them with their darts.” Wallace, again, says the same of the Brazilian Indians. The South Sea Islanders are particularly active in the water. They dive after fish which “take refuge under the coral rock; thither the diver pursues him, and brings him up with a finger in each eye.” They are even more than a match for the shark, which they attack fearlessly with a knife. If they are unarmed “they all surround him and force him ashore, if they can but once get him into the surf;” but even if he escapes they continue their bathing without the least fear. Ellis more cautiously says only that “when armed they have sometimes been known to attack a shark in the water.”