Which of us, for instance, could follow an American Indian through a sentence of more than three words?
All savages appear to possess, to an uncommon degree, this power of mimicry.

I was told, almost in the same words, of the same ludicrous habit among the Caffres; the Australians, likewise, have long been notorious for being able to imitate and describe the gait of any man, so that he may be recognised.

How can this faculty be explained?
is it a consequence of the more practised habits of perception and keener senses, common to all men in a savage state, as compared with those long civilised?
When a song was struck up by our party, I thought the Fuegians would have fallen down with astonishment.

With equal surprise they viewed our dancing; but one of the young men, when asked, had no objection to a little waltzing.

Little accustomed to Europeans as they appeared to be, yet they knew and dreaded our firearms; nothing would tempt them to take a gun in their hands.