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Updated: May 20, 2025

Surely if he considered the nature of a man's eye he would not wonder at it: for this I am certaine of, that no servaunt to his maister, no childe to his father, is so obedient, as every joynte and peece of the bodye is to do whatsover the eye biddes." In shooting the tortoises of the Amazon and its tributaries, the Indians use an arrow with a long twine and a float attached to it.

George P. Marsh - The Earth as Modified by Human Action