234 The Naturalist in La Plata. 
to us in vain. We are only teaching the tribes of 
that vast continent to exterminate a hundred noble 
species they would not tame. With grief and 
shame, even with dismay, we call to mind that 
our country is now a stupendous manufactory of 
destructive engines, which we are rapidly placing 
in the hands of all the savage and semi-savage 
peoples of the earth, thus ensuring the speedy 
destruction of all the finest types in the animal 
kingdom. 
