, the
fire is lighted in the open camp, and the entire rudeness of
the scene depicts the people "whose usages I behelde after the
fashion there sette downe."
19. LONG MEG AND HER DAUGHTERS (from a photograph by
Messrs. Frith) 193
20. STONE CIRCLES ON STANTON MOOR (from
_Archaeologia_) 193
Nos. 19 and 20 are illustrations of two of the lesser-known
circles about which the people hold such curious beliefs.
21. CHINESE REPRESENTATION OF PYGMIES GOING ABOUT ARM-IN-ARM
FOR MUTUAL PROTECTION (from Moseley's _Notes by
a Naturalist on H.M.S. Challenger_, by permission
of Mr. John Murray) 242
22. SEMANG OF KUALA KENERING, ULU PERAK (from Skeat and
Blagden's _Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula_,
by permission of Messrs. Macmillan) 242
23. NEGRITO TYPE: SEMANG OF PERAK (from the same) 243
24. SEMANG OF KEDAH HAVING A MEAL (from the same) 244
25. TREE HUT, ULU BATU, ABOUT TWELVE MILES FROM KUALA
LUMPUR, SELANGOR (from the same) 298
The old-world traditions and the scientific observation
of pygmy people are illustrated in No. 21 and Nos. 22-25
respectively. Though much has been written about the
Pygmies, Messrs. Skeat and Blagden's account of the Semang
people is by far the most thorough and important.
26. RITE OF BAPTISM ON THE FONT AT DARENTH, KENT (from
Romilly Allen's _Early Christian Symbolism_) 324
The crude paganism on the sculptured stone is confirmatory
of the pagan elements preserved in custom, and this
illustration from Kent, one of the earliest centres of
Christianity in Britain, is singularly interesting from
this point of view.
27 and 28. TWO SCENES FROM THE ANGLO-SAXON LIFE OF ST.
GUTHLAC BY FELIX OF CROWLAND, DEPICTING THE ATTACK
OF THE DEMONS 351, 352
These two plates belong to a series of eight which
illustrate the life of the saint. They are less primitive
in form than the story which they illustrate. By contrast
with the remaining six, however, which are purely
ecclesiastical in character, they show how this early
episode kept its place amo
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