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warding the aims and objects, if not in fostering the cupidity, 

 of the "population"; and the word population, without b 

 defined, is tacitly taken to mean the White Man. No considera- 

 tion is given to the rights or claims of the black or red man, and 

 >till less to those of the brute population. 



Tin- example of the improvement of facilities of transporta- 

 tion between California and the eastern states of North America 



he construction of the first transcontinental railway, and 

 the advantage which it conferred on the "population" by 

 enabling it to reach easily the great gold deposits of California 

 and to remove the metal quickly to the world's markets, is 

 stated shortly on page 16. The reader will naturally conclude 



the construction of this railway was like that of any other 

 railway connecting neighbouring towns; when it was finished 

 there was just a railway as well as a road between the two 

 places. But there was no road across the continent. The 

 White Man crossed it as an adventurer with his life in his hand. 

 is an antecedent and legitimate population, both man 

 and beast, by which his trespass was likely to be disputed. 



: the opening of the railway this population had practically 

 ceased to exist. 



How many of the millions of people who in Europe or 

 America, have seen "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show" have 



hed to the name "Buffalo Bill" any greater significance 

 than that he was a successful hunter of big game? Although 

 it happened less than fifty years ago, it will be news to most 

 people, that Colonel Cody, but acting for others, was in fact 

 the exterminator of the grandest example of the animal creation 

 on the American continent. In order to feed the navvies and 



r workmen who made the railway through regions where 

 provisions could not be purchased, Colonel Cody was com- 



loned to furnish food from the wild .mim.iN <f the count r\ . 

 The workmen were fed, the railway was built, people went 

 gold went east, but the Buffalo disappeared. 



-.ime thing but on a much greater scale has happened in 



ra. 



a may be said to be the tropical and equatorial part of 

 the Old World. It is in this dim.itir ir-nm th.it the t.mn.i 



