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Cornish's reports. He stood in the centre of the 

 large hall of the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, 

 in the Yellowstone Park. A card which he held 

 firmly in his mouth invited me to " meet him by 

 moonlight alone." I declined the invitation, but 

 according to all accounts I should have met with 

 a most friendly reception. As an instance of this, 

 Mr. Cornish tells of a gentleman, "who was 

 going up one of the rivers in Venezuela in his 

 steam launch, and gave a passage to a Cornish 

 miner, who was going up to the goldfields. The 

 passenger, who was an elderly man, usually slung 

 his hammock on shore. One morning, being 

 asked how he had slept, he complained that the 

 frogs had wakened him by croaking near his 

 hammock. Some Indians who had been taking 

 down the hammock laughed, and being asked the 

 reason, still laughing, said, ' O, tiger sleep with 

 old man last night.'" "They had satisfied them- 

 selves that a puma had been lying just under the 

 hammock, and it was probably the satisfied purring 

 of the puma, which had enjoyed the pleasure of 

 sleeping ' in the next berth ' below a man, that 

 had wakened the occupant of the hammock." 



In the chapter on "Animals as Colonists," 

 Mr. Cornish says that nearly all the domestic 

 animals now in Australia and New Zealand are of 

 British origin ; there 'are now in round numbers 

 one hundred and eleven millions of sheep, nine 

 millions of cattle, and one million three hundred 

 thousand horses. The English rabbit and the 



