-> The Tragedy of Civilisation 



To-day these millions have gone the same way as the 

 vanished Indian tribes that once lived side by side with 

 them. It was feared that the buffaloes, as they are called 

 in America, would damage the Pacific Railway, as Heck 

 has pointed out in his book Das Tierreich. So buffaloes 

 in their myriads had to make way for the steam-engine. 

 The number of buffalo-skins dealt in by traders during 



A SKELETON OF A RHINOCEROS, PROBABLY KILLED BY THE " FUNDIS " 

 NATIVES LICENSED TO CARRY FIREARMS AND HUNT BIG GAME 



the last seventy years of the preceding century is 

 almost beyond belief. Only a few hundreds are now in 

 existence ! 



Soon a long list of other noble specimens of the 

 American fauna will follow them. President Roosevelt 

 himself is not blind to this prospect, and he favours 

 everything which seems calculated to stave off this inevit- 

 able calamity. Through the introduction of barbed-wire 



