Animals' View Of Men

Savage man, who has generally been flrst in contact with animáis, is usually a hunter, and therefore an object of dislike to the other hunting animáis, and of dread to the hunted. But civilized man, with his supply of bread and beef, is not necessarily a hunter, and it ia just conceivable that he might be content to leave the animal in a newly discovered country unmolested, and condeseend, when not better employed, to watch their attitude toward himself, says the Popular Science Monthly. The impossible island in "The Swiss Family Robinson," in which half the animáis of the two hemispheres were collected, would be an ideal place for such an experiment. But, unfortunately, uninhabited islands seldom contain more than a few species, and those generally birds or sea beasts; and in newly discovered game regions savage man has generally been before us with his arrow, spears and pitf alls. Some instances of the flrst contact oi animáis with man have, however, been preserved in the accounts of the early voyages collected by Hakluyt and others, though the hungry navigators were generally more intent on victualing their ships with the unsuspecting beasts and birds, or on noting those which would be usef ui commodities for "trafBcke," than in cultivating friendly relations with the animal inhabitants ol the newly discovered islands.