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alternative appeared to be to set fire to the build- 

 ings. Jack favoured this plan, because it appeared 

 to us both that the scoundrel husband who had 

 penetrated into this forest region had secretly 

 entered a lumbering camp and surrendered his 

 wife to starvation and death. 



u Gathering all the dead wood we could find, we 

 piled up huge heaps on each side, and then applied 

 a flaming torch, and in the solemn light of that 

 weird fire we stood with heads uncovered, until, 

 realising that we could do no more, we collected 

 our few belongings, and turned our backs upon 

 this dismal scene, and soon we were lost to view 

 in the thick canopy of the wild forest. More 

 than once we turned our heads to look back ; 

 but, partly from respect to the memory of that 

 poor unknown one, we proceeded silently and 

 sadly toward the South." 



President Roosevelt relates an authentic in- 

 stance of the hybridising of the wolf with the 

 dog,* and though I have personally seen several 



* In the menagerie of Mr. Wombwell there were exhibited, 

 in October, 1828, two animals from a cross between the wolf 

 and the domestic dog, which had been bred in this country. 

 They were in the same den with a female setter, and were 

 likely again to multiply the species. A similar circumstance 

 is related by the celebrated anatomist, John Hunter, in the 

 Philosophical Transactions for 1787 ; and he contends that 



