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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 fron 

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

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

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

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

 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 wonders of Nature in different parts 

 of North America well worthv of more notice than we car 



THE DEAD SEA, MAMMOTH CAVE 



