New Walks in Old Ways 



were whole tribes in peaceful garb, old 

 men, women and children, wrapped in 

 blankets and shod in moccasins that 

 gave no sound as they pressed up the 

 incline to the camp. That was not 

 the worst of it. The redskins were 

 bringing with them all their friends of 

 earth and air! 



I have often been impressed by 

 pictures of old Noah leading all the 

 animals up into the ark, and never 

 could quite understand how it was all 

 managed, from mastodons to microbes. 

 I had also seen pictures of impossible 

 herds of buffalo roaming the western 

 plains; so I had a fairly adequate idea 

 of how large bodies of quadrupeds 

 would look, but, along with all the 

 Indians that ever lived in North 

 America, by which our camp was now 

 hopelessly surrounded, were massed 

 more beasts than I had ever supposed 

 existed in all the continents combined! 



Bison by the acre! Bears grizzly, 

 brown and black by the billion ! Wild 

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