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tlirong'; ^^'hose numbers and streng-th have been gradualty 

 broug'ht down b}' war and want. Whole tribes have been 

 rooted out from their hereditar^^ homes^ and have either 

 disappeared fi*om the face of the earth, or, pursued by the 

 " g-aunt and bony arm" of famine, still wander with fluctu- 

 ating- fortunes over these measureless tracts. For hundreds 

 of miles, therefore, the eye is not greeted by the smallest 

 trace of human industry, or by any vestig-e of human habi- 

 tation — the wild and interminable expanse ever presenting- 

 the same appearance — that of one vast uninhabited solitude. 



