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sea cow, once at home in the same ocean, an animal that was 

 destroyed in the sea in the same ruthless manner that the bison of 

 America was exterminated on the plains. It was a fate which we 



THIRTY SILVER Fox SKINS, BELONGING TO W. F. SHEARD, 

 TACOMA, WASH. 



(One Silver Fox Skin was sold in London, 

 March, 1899, for 340.) 



know overtook the millions of fur seal that once bred on ownerless 

 islands in the South Pacific, where nothing stayed the hand of the 

 slaughterer. 



