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hunting to the pastoral state, from the pastoral 

 to the agricultural, and from thence to a condition 

 of existence in which the manufacturing instincts 

 of man are fully developed. This is the sequence 

 — hunting, cattle-tending, sheep-herding, fesh air, 

 good water, lovely scenery, wholesome excitement, 

 healthy lives, and — barbarism ; agriculture, manu- 

 factures, great cities, hideous country, poisoned 

 water, impure air, dirt, disease, and — civilisation. 

 It is difficult sometimes to know exactly what to 

 say when preaching civilisation to the savage. It 

 is certain that, so far as the masses of the people 

 are concerned, the highest aim of civilisation is 

 to secure to a large number the same blessings that 

 a small number obtain, freely and without trouble, 

 in an uncivilised state. 



It was sport — or, as it would be called in the 

 States, hunting — that led me first to visit Estes 

 Park. Some friends and I had visited Denver 

 at Christmas to pay our proper devotions to the 

 good things of this earth at that festive season, 

 and, hearing rumours of much game at Estes 

 Park, we determined to go there. We spent a 

 day or two laying in suppUes, purchasing many of 

 the necessaries and a few of the luxuries of life, 

 and wound up our sojourn in Denver with a very 



