The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-16

a vast depth underground in Mexico. He
himself was tired for the day with one
journey empty handed. But those Indians
brought up 30 to $50 pounds of stone every
time, and they worked without a pause
from dawn to sunset. Humboldt's oAserva-
tons on the absence OF dwarfs hunch-
backs and deformed persons in general
among the Indians of America and their
length of life are to the point. l have no
room for details, perhaps the editor viii
allow me 10 deal with them another time
Briefly however, def0rmites are very
rare among all savages, and Humboldt wi j
not admit the easy eXpiana ion that chill
dren so afflicted die in infancy, but, of
course, he speaks only of the Indians he
studied. AS for .ength of life, there is
plenty of evidence. | refer the reader for
instance, to a most interesting report IS
sued by the naive department of Cape
Colony in 1875, summarized by Mr.. Theal
in his history, since l have not space 10
quote it.
But to my mind the clearest proof of vi
tai force is shown in the rapidity and ease
with which savages in general recover
from hurts that would be fatal to white
men. My attention was drawn to thls
matter in youth when / saw a Cinnamon
in a hospital, who had loaded a gun with
fragments of a broken bottle and DIS
charged it into his chest, because the
keeper of the opium den refused him more
credit DR.. Juuker tells how a courier IN
the Soudan crawed into camp with his
stomach laid open, having heen attacked
when asleep. A comrade replaced the
contents and bound him up. ITO my great
surprise the wound was almost complete
ly healed in a few days" Carl Box saw
a Malay with a piece of his skull cut
off-ihe brain was bare. They tied on the
fragment with a dressing of serpents' fat,
..sa~
European would have been three years
or more. if he had lived" A similar case
was attested by Bishop McDougall NJ.
d. After an action with pirates enc of
them was brought on board with the top
of his head sliced off, adherlng only by
a morsel of skin. The bishop lifted 1t and
made a brief but interesting observation
of the brain; it did not seem worth while
to treat a hopeless case when there We're
so many wounded. At the evening meal.
however, he saw this man eating rice
among the crew, with bit of rag to hold
his skull together In a few days the
skin had joined all around.
Rev Mr.. Pritchard, 10 whom anthro-
pology and folklore owe so much, declar-
ed that wounds, which in a white man
would quickly bring on Inflammation and
even modification, in these Samoans are
healed by simple daily bathings and clean
liness." youth was shot through the
chest near his dwelling. LAS he Dreatheu,
the air seemed to come from the wound. =
But in ten weeks he was as well as ever
he was" The good man did not UNDER
stand this at all; It cannot be said that
we understand now, but wide experience
has taught us that 1t is the rule with saw
ages OF the Soudanese Sir Charles VIII
son wrote "These negroes are really like
bits of india rubber. 1t Is perfectly ex-
traordnary to see how they bear wounds
and how rapidly they heal up" Ana
Capt Younghusband wrote in Chtral:
There Is no doubt Asiatics stand wounds
inflicted by a sword or bullet Infinitely
better than Europeans. A wound that
would kill a European or, al any rate,
lay him up for months, affects these hardy
and absteminous mountaineers in a very
much less severe manner Imagine having
the whole lock Of an exploded gun blown
into ones shoulder and going about as II
nothing had happened. Such lock was cut
out by our surgeon several months aft
err"
Health. strength and long life are some
OF the compensa lions of savagery.
No" he said rehectvoly "this isn't