-»■ The Tra^'cdx- of Cj'\ ilisation 



To-dciy these milh'ons h^ive gone the same way as the 

 \anish(Ml Indian trilx-s that once Hved side by side with 

 them. It was feared that the buffaloes, as they are called 

 in Atnerica, would damage the Pacific Railway, as Heck 

 has pointed out in his book Das Tjcrreich. So buffaloes 

 in their myriads had to make wa\' for the st('am-engine. 

 'rh(^ number of buflakj-skins d('a]t in by traders during 



A SKELEION Ol- ,. , ,., -■■' l,KO>, rKUllAIil.Y KILLED BY THE " 1- f NlJlS " 

 — NATIVES LICENSED TO CARRY FIREARMS AND HUNT BIG GAME 



the last seventy years of the preceding century is 

 almost beyond belief. Only a few hundreds are now in 

 e.xistence ! 



Soon a long list of other noble specimens of the 

 American fauna will follow them. President Roosevelt 

 himself is not blind t(j this prospect, and he favours 

 everything which seems calculated to stave off this inevit- 

 able calamitv. Throucrh the introduction of barbed-wire 



