Relics of This Loch in Africa and the earliest tribes were little prone to roam, the enormous length of time which their period includes led to their dispersion over most of the then habitable globe. We have mentioned (p. 2o) the probability that they wandered to America across the land-bridge then existing in the Northern Atlantic, and we can trace almost certain signs of their presence in Africa and Asia.
In the former continent the valley of the Nile was inhabited at an indefinitely remote date by a race manufacturing stone implements nearly identical with those of the Drift and the Somme gravels. An able American archaeologist, Professor Henry W. Haynes of Boston, has described and figured a number of these which he collected during a winter spent in Egypt. Several of the types which he gives we repro duce on Plate (figs. 12-14).
In the far south, in the diamond diggings of the Cape of Good Hope, there have been disinterred at a depth of forty feet below the surface specimens of just such rude implements. There seems no question that they were deposited there at a period nearly coeval with the Eng lish Drift.
In Asia such finds have been reported especially from Syria and India. In a deposit of laterite not far from Madras a number of charac teristic implements of the most ancient patterns have been collected by English explorers; while in the alluvial deposits of Narbada they have been found intimately associated with the bones of various animals now extinct in India.
Even so far to the east as Japan the recent researches of Siebold and Morse leave no doubt that at an extremely remote date that archi pelago was inhabited by men who had not learned the art of making lance-heads or arrow-points, not even a scraper or a stone knife, and who were therefore wholly within the epoch of simple implements. Whether we could with propriety assign these tribes an antiquity so great as those of the Somme gravels is as yet uncertain, but their state of cul ture was the same. Some specimens of their workmanship are presented on Plate 1 (figs. 19, 20).