Title: Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters (microform)
Identifier: cihm_10096 (find matches)
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Mayer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marshall), 1836-1897
Subjects: Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive
Publisher: New York : Century
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an 30 The Pnliistoric Huiiicy. We will attempt to give mosaics of these primitive hunters and anglers, formed, it is true, out of rather large stones and of few colors; for the pictures have to he made out of what fragments this prehistoric man has left of his habitations, his feasts, his flint, bone, and bronze implements his sketches and his carvings. .Some- times, however, the arrangement of these fragments will make an al- most accurate picture of him. We can clothe him in his garments, adjust his crude ornaments, place in his hands the arms of the chase, and see him as he once pursued the noble gaiii<; which e\ery\vhere surroundetl him. ;"*! ,.:i^ 'rilK Hi NIKK (IK TIIK Dkll'l. Deep below the surface of the gravel-beds in many river-valle\ s in I'rance, Knglanil, and various other parts of the; world are found stone axes, spe'ar-heads anil knives of Hint, rudely chipped into shape by races of men who were tlie fu'st hunters oi whom we ha\(; any recortl. The records these hunters have; left are these stone implements and their own bones, which are found side by side
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