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syllables, with the accent on the second) is a 

 smaller animal and even more cowardly. A 

 whole pack would be put to flight by one man, 

 though these animals are endowed with re- 

 markable cunning and even know the safety of 

 a man when he is unarmed. And the coyote 

 appears to have no fear of passing trains, for 

 I remember looking out of the window of a 

 Canadian Pacific express coming east across 

 the prairie and seeing a coyote creeping up to 

 a stork. I doubt whether the wolf ever got 

 near its prey in such open country, but what 

 most struck me at the time was its absolute 

 disregard of the train, which must have passed 

 within two hundred yards of it. 



SOUTH AMERICA 



With the dense forests of Brazil, the Argen- 

 tine pampas, the foothills and summits of the 

 Andes, the banks of the longest river in the 

 world, and many other widely different types 

 of country, ranging from the shores of the 

 sweltering. Caribbean to the frozen desolation 

 of Patagonia and the Falkland Islands, South 

 America might be expected to harbour great 

 variety of big game. In point of fact, how- 

 ever, there are not more than half a dozen 



