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made the forests of the Indians the homes of countless 

 thousands, built great cities everywhere, and crossed the 

 land with numerous steel roads, making possible the 

 spreading out of the ever increasing throng. 



Some very interesting localities in which to observe 

 evidences of ancient races are seen on the Pacific coast, 

 especially on the islands. When Cabrillo, the Spanish 

 explorer, visited the 

 coast in 1542, he 

 found evidences of 

 Indians almost 

 everywhere. The 

 smoke from their 

 campfires and vil- 

 lages rose all along- 

 shore, yet to-day, 

 years after, in this 

 same locality, it is 

 not only almost im- 

 possible to find a 

 native, but their leg- 

 ends in many cases 

 have become things 

 of the past. 



The early inhab- 

 itants of the Californian islands may be taken as types of 

 early races which had advanced beyond savagery. An 

 example of a true savage, a man of low type, is seen in 

 the native Australian, who has, Uke the orang, no perma- 

 nent abode, who wanders from place to place, building a 

 shelter to-night to desert it on the following day, addicted 



Fig. 194. — Australian Bushmen. 



