E. H. Man, _On the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands_ (London, N.D.), p. 82. Mr. Man’s evidence is confirmed by a German traveller, Mr. Jagor, who says of the Andaman Islanders: “The fire must never go out. Here also I am again assured that the Andamanese have no means of making fire.” See _Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie_, 1877, p. (54) (bound with _Zeitschrift für Ethnologie_, ix.). I regret that on this subject I did not question Mr. A. R. Brown, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who resided for about two years among the Andaman Islanders, studying their customs and beliefs. Mr. Brown is now (December 1910) in West Australia. Footnote 817: N. von Miklucho-Maclay, “Ethnologische Bemerkungen über die Papuas der Maclay-Küste in Neu-Guinea,” _Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie_, xxxv. (1875), pp. 82, 83. Compare C. Hager, _Kaiser Wilhelms-Land und der Bismarck-Archipel_, p. 69; M. Krieger, _Neu-Guinea_, p. 153. The natives of the Maclay Coast are said to have traditions of a time when they were ignorant even of the use of fire; they ate fruits raw, which set up a disease of the gums, filling their mouths with blood; they had a special name for the disease. See N. von Miklucho-Maclay, in _Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie_, 1882, p. (577) (bound with _Zeitschrift für Ethnologie_, xiv.). The reports of people living in ignorance of the use of fire have hitherto proved, on closer examination, to be fables. See E. B. Tylor, _Researches into the Early History of Mankind_, 3rd Ed., pp. 229 _sqq._ The latest repetition of the story that I know of is by an American naturalist, Mr. Titian R. Peale, who confirms the exploded statement that down to 1841 the natives of Bowditch Island had not seen fire. See _The American Naturalist_, xviii. (1884) pp. 229-232. Footnote 818: B. Hagen, _Unter den Papuas_ (Wiesbaden, 1899), pp. 203 _sq._ Mr. Hagen’s account applies chiefly to the natives of Astrolabe Bay. He tells us that for the most part they now use Swedish matches. Footnote 819: G. Casati, _Ten Years in Equatoria_ (London and New York, 1891), i. 157. Another writer says that these dwarfs “keep fire alight perpetually, starting it in some large tree, which goes on smouldering for months at a time” (Captain Guy Burrows, _The Land of the Pigmies_ (London, 1898), p. 199). Footnote 820: F. Stuhlmann, _Mit Emin Pascha ins Herz von Afrika_ (Berlin, 1894), pp. 451 _sq._ Footnote 821: