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TO THE VICTOR THE SPOILS. 



All game has fled, and the only fear is that the cupidity — I can 

 call it nothing else — of the successful hunters will overcome their 

 natural good feeling and prevent them from making that distri- 

 bution of their spoils to the unsuccessful ones that they otherwise 

 would. There is a strong spirit of selfishness among some of the 

 inhabitants of the coast who have risen to comfort solely by their 

 own hard work, for many that are now poor might also have become 

 comfortably off by their own efforts, had they possessed courage to 

 press forward to the work. 



t^tA^ 



