2U WHERE LIVES PRIMITIVE MAN picture, " The Birth of Experience," where Adam and Eve eat their first oyster. Watts there depicts her as white. The Eve in this instance was black, with burnt ash on her head, and partook of a cayenne-pepper pod or chiU in place of an oyster. A small boy, taken by their colour, had a snailshell full. Eve appeared to have raided him, and for ten minutes after was dancing, bent double, skippmg, shaking her head with both hands holding it, rushing backwards and forwards to the river, crying out and spitting consumedly, while Adams of all sizes roared with amusement, and Eves looked concerned. The victim was fortunately good-natured enough, and eventually showed her appreciation of the joke by ending her laments with a shriek of laughter.

Close to the landing-place where we had tied up, were a series of large ant-hills or their counterfeit presentments ; inspection demonstrated a large, deep, circular pit in the hard soil, in the immediate vicinity of each. These proved to be traps for the unwary hippo, wandering at night, and in the darkness allowing his fore-feet to step over the brink. He remains in this position helpless, until the morning brings the adversary with spears. Many tusks were in the possession of these villagers, but they are now of little value, since the substitution of porcelain for the manufacture of artificial teeth in Europe.

On the sandy beach near were the white fragments of fresh eggshells in profusion ; Nuers