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instances as those related by W. T. L. Travers, F.R.S,, in Ihe 
‘Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,’ vol. v. (1872), p. 78 ; 
and vol. i (1860), p. 176, of the same series ; or to the sickening 
disclosui’es made by Cajotain A. H. Markham, who was sent out by 
the British Government in H.M.S. ‘Rosario’ to investigate and 
suppiess the hateful trade in human beings carried on by white 
men, under the pretence of supplying native labour to our colonies 
111 the South Pacific. The particulars are too fearful to quote, and 
those of you who are not acquainted with them will be saved many 
a nightmare by remaining in happy ignorance. Well may M. de 
Quatrefages (‘The Human Species,’ pp. 461— 2) assert that the 
white, even when civilized, from the moi’al jioint of view, is scarcely 
bettei than the negro, and too often by his conduct in the midst 
of inferior races, has justified the argument opposed by a Malgache 
to a missionary : “ Your soldiers seduce all our women . . . you 
come to rob us of our laud, pillage the country, and make war 
against us, and you wish to force your God upon us, saying that 
He forbids robbery, pillage, and war ! Go, you are white upon 
one side and black upon the other j and if we iverc to cross the 
river, it would not be us that the caimans would take ! ” “ Such,” 
he says, “is the criticism of a savage.” The following is that of an 
European, of M. Rose, giving his ojiinion of his own countrymen ; 
“ The people are simple and confiding when we arrive, perfidious 
when we leave them. Once sober, brave, and honest, we make them 
drunken, lazy, and finally thieves. After having inoculated tliem 
with our vices, we employ these very vices as an argument for 
their destruction.” Alas ! the picture is in many cases but too true. 
But I must not dwell longer upon this portion of the subject, as 
I wish to point out to you some of the results upon the animals 
subject to man of this great exodus of modern times. 
One of the most remarkable cases of the rapid extinction of an 
animal, brought about directly by man, with which I am acquainted, 
is that of the Rhytina, an animal nearly allied to tlie Manatee, 
formerly inhabiting a very restricted area in the Arctic Circle. 
This singular creature was discovered by Steller, the naturalist to 
• ‘Cruise of the Rosario,’ by Commander A. H. Markham, 1873. 
