[B4]

(a) We must bear in mind that in this difference between savages & civilised natives, that a reduced number due not presently gives more food to [3 words illeg] this farmer with savages doing

the periodical farmer, a slight decrease in number few cause new previous causes, wd not give – so much relief as might be expected, so as to save number from perishing, for the difficulty of gathering food in its being hardly scattered & the long search to obtain it.

During prolonged stormy weather in T. del Fuego, it is not [illeg] whether there were few or many, all wd suffer. So it wd be if the Buffalo or other such animal had been under man by [illeg] double

 

(Ch 3) [In box:] With civilised natives this is a stock of food & of 1/4 run left from remainder