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to meet the purchasers, sometimes to the value of a thousand 

 dollars each. The traders sell their goods at enormous profits ; 

 and the thoughtless trapper, indulging in the fire-water from 

 which he has long abstained, is too often induced to gamble 

 away the gold for which he has risked life and gone through 

 so many hardshijis. When all is gone, he gets credit for an- 

 other equipment, and sets off alone, often to return and repeat 

 the same process, although the profits of one or two success- 

 ful hunts would enable him to stock a farm and live amono- 

 civilized men. 



WONDERS OF NATURE. MAMMOTH CAVE OF KENTUCKY. 



There are many other vronders of Nature in different ]iarts 

 of Noi'th America well ^^^ol"thy of more notice than we can 



THE DKAUSKA, MAMMOTU CAVE 



