THE BOOK: AN APOLOGY n 



Garibaldi was beaten again and again, and finally 

 driven from the Plate by a better fighter — an English- 

 man of the name of Brown; but the beaten "pirate" 

 lived to liberate his own country and to see his people 

 going out annually in tens of thousands to settle in 

 the land where he had fought and lost. How melan- 

 choly to think that from the bird-lover's point of view 

 they have been a curse to it, that, but for the wealthy 

 native and English landowners who are able to give 

 some protection to wild life on their estates, the 

 detestable swarm of aliens would have made the 

 land they have populated as birdless as their 

 native Italy. 



