dwellings--Civilisation stationary--Troglodytes--Antiquity of man--Les
Eyzies--Hotel du Paradis--The first colonists of the Vezere Valley--
Their artistic accomplishments--Painting and sculpture--Rock dwellings
in Champagne--Of a later period--Civilisation does not progress
uniformly--The earth--Book of the Revelation of the past--La Laugerie
Basse--Blandas--Conduche--Grotte de Han--The race of Troglodytes not
extinct


CHAPTER II

MODERN TROGLODYTES

Troglodytes of the Etang de Berre--The underground town of Og, King of
Bashan--Troo--Sanitation--Ancient mode of disposing of refuse--The
talking well--Les Roches--Chateau de Bandan--Chapel of S. Gervais--La
Grotte des Vierges--Rochambeau--Le Roi des Halles--La Roche Corbon--
Human refuse at Ezy--Saumur--Are there still pagans among them?--
Bourre--Courtineau--The basket-makers of Villaines--Grioteaux--Sauliac
--Cuzorn--Brantome--La Roche Beaucourt--The Swabian Alb--Sibyllen loch--
Vrena Beutlers Hoehle--Schillingsloch--Schloessberg Hoehle--Rock village
in Sicily--In the Crimea--In Egypt--In volcanic breccia--Balmes de
Montbrun--Grottoes de Boissiere--Grottoes de Jonas--The rock Ceyssac--
The sandstone cave-dwellings of Correze--Their internal arrangement--
Cluseaux--Cave-dwellings in England--In Nottinghamshire--In
Staffordshire--In Cornwall--In Scotland--The savage in man--Reversion
to savagery--The Gubbins--A stone-cutter--Daniel Gumb--A gentleman of
Sens--Toller of Clun Downs