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numbers will be shot to sustain the inpouring throng. 

 The natives will give way before the new order of things ; 

 civilization is fatal to many, — at least the type of civiUza- 

 tion that has been applied to the American Indian, and 

 the tragedy of the American Indian will be repeated ; in 

 fact, so far as the Zulus are concerned, it began long 

 ago. 



All Southern Africa long has been in the possession of 

 the Dutch, Enghsh, and other nations, and the Zulus and 

 other natives are 



pushed to the wall, 

 and the wild game 

 driven farther back. 

 With this passing of 

 wild Africa, hun- 

 dreds of strange and 

 interesting animals 

 will disappear, — the 

 African lion, the wild 

 ostrich, the hippo- 

 potamus, the several 

 species of rhinoce- 

 ros, the gorilla, and 

 the large antelopes. 

 Australia and 

 New Zealand have 

 many animals that 

 are pecuHar to that region, and these in the ordinary course 

 of events may be swept away with the setthng up of that 

 country in the present century. These are the kangaroos 

 and the other peculiar pouched animals found here. With- 



FiG. 100. — The Gorilla. 



