WITH FLASH-LIGHT 

 AND RIFLE 



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THE TRAGEDY IN THE PATH OF PROGRESS AND 



CIVILIZATION 



MODERN man, equipped with the engines and tools 

 furnished him by the inventive genius of the last 

 century, has conquered and subdued almost the whole 

 of our globe. While, not so very long ago, it took us 

 months or even years to reach certain far-off countries, 

 we now, thanks to a net-work of railroads and the ocean 

 greyhounds, travel in a few days or weeks to the re- 

 motest regions and the most distant shores. 



Man has succeeded, and still succeeds, in developing 

 the resources of the earth and in unfolding its treasures, 

 battling victoriously with seemingly unconquerable ob- 

 stacles and difficulties, spreading progress and civiliza- 

 tion on his onward march. But this advance is accom- 

 panied by a destruction which, though we may deplore 

 it, seems inevitable. 



Far away from the centres of our civilization, the 



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