24 STALKS ABROAD 



of the domestic sheep, which has now taken their 

 heritage for his own. A little before that three 

 thousand head could have been counted in one 

 band. Now it is all changed. Their thousands 

 have given place to tens and the reason is not far 

 to seek. Increasing cultivation ; restricted range ; 

 railways ; scarcity of food. It is the same old 

 story ; but what can be done ? A rapacious, care- 

 less, and all-embracing civilisation callously answers, 

 " Nothing ! " 



