THE WAPITI, OR ROUND-HORNED ELK 



country of the temperate 

 zone can begin to compare 

 with South Asia, and, above 

 all, tropical and subtropical 

 Africa, in the number and 

 size of those great beasts of the chase's 

 which are known to hunters as big ' 

 game; but after the Indian and Afri- 

 can hunting-grounds, the best are still 

 those of North America. Until a few 

 years before 1897 there were large re- 

 gions, even in the United States, where 

 the teeming myriads of wild game, 

 though of far fewer and less varied 

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