Now, do consider the data.
Diminutive footmarks, toes never fettered by boots, naked feet, stone-headed wooden mace, great agility, small poisoned darts.

What do you make of all this ?" "A savage!" I exclaimed.

"Perhaps one of those Indians who were the associates of Jonathan Small." "Hardly that," said he.

"When first I saw signs of strange weapons I was inclined to think so; but the remarkable character of the footmarks caused me to reconsider my views.

Some of the inhabitants of the Indian Peninsula are small men, but none could have left such marks as that.