By a process of transmission which I will not describe, as it might offend fastidious persons, half a dozen individuals may successively enjoy the effects of a single mushroom, each of them in a less degree than his predecessor.
Like savages every where, these northern natives are greatly pleased with pictures and study them attentively.

I heard that several copies of American illustrated papers were circulating among the Chukchees, who handled them with great care.

There is a superstitious reverence for pictures mingled with childlike curiosity.

People possessing no written language find the pictorial representations of the civilized world the nearest approach to savage hieroglyphics.
The telegraph was an object of great wonder to all the natives.

In Ghijiga a few hundred yards of wire were put up in the spring of 1866.
Crowds gathered to see the curiosity, and many messages were exchanged to prove that the machine really spoke.