As ho came along the track, the parly stepped out in front of him. The man was transfixed with fear. stood, mouth agape, too afraid even fo move his" lips, He. had never seen a white man before, but this was not his chief fear. He! was looking at a horse for the frst time, Eventually they won his friendship and he exerted them to the sacred ground of the Charoo tribe, where the aborigines got their tribal laws possibly tens of thousands of years ago, in the stone age of man. They looked down on a great amphitheatre, where once there had been a. great river, and where they could sce crocodiles moving about the pools, It was here the natives got their tribal laws from the spirit men, where they held out their hands to the moon when the bush abounded with giant animals and birds, and When men were perhaps as insignifcant as frightened ants. Here, they learned the uso of fire, how to' make spears, and the laws' of birth con-{rol s0 that the population of a tribe would not exceed the food capacity of the Jand on which it lived,
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