WONDERFUL INVISIBILITY
All Indians seem to have learned a wonderful way of walking* unseen — making themselves invisible like certain spiders, which in the case of alarm, caused, for example, .by a bird alighting on the bush their web's are spread upon, immediately bounce themselves up and down on their elastic threads so rapidly that only a Diur is visible. The wild Indian's power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in nard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach .game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat. And this experience, transmitted through many generations, seems at length to have become what is vaguely called instinct.
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Grey River Argus, 13 April 1911, Page 2
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122WONDERFUL INVISIBILITY Grey River Argus, 13 April 1911, Page 2
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