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ultimate civilisation are more remote than ever ; they 

 will be cut off again from intercourse with humanity. 

 Their villages and fields Avill be burnt and destroyed 

 as of old by rapacious soldiery, and war, incessant 

 war, will be their only occupation, until at last, deter- 

 mined never to submit, they will become exterminated 

 as a race, savage, but free to the end. 



PRINTED BY WILLIAM BLACK WOOD AND SONS. 



