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tice a very odd scheme. The chamois being apt to approach cat- 
tle in the pastures, and graze near them, a hunter will crawl on all 
fours with salt spread on his back to attract the cattle, and is im- 
mediately surrounded and hidden by them so completely, that he 
finds no difficulty in advancing very near the chamois and taking a 
sure aim. At other times, when discovered, he will drive his stick 
into the snow, and placing his hat on the lop of it, creep away, 
and while the game remains intent on the strange object, he will 
return by another way. — Simond’s Switzerland. 
All these races symbolize these unconquered populations, who 
preferring misery to servitude, have in all times climbed to de- 
mand of the maccessible crests of mountains, lost in the regions 
of storms, a shelter for their liberties. The chamois and the wild 
goat of the glaciers represent to us the Helvetian of the Ruth, 
the Klephte, the Montenegrin, the Abanese of Scanderbeg, the 
Araucanian of the Chilian Andes, the Druse of Mount Lebanon, 
the Kabyle of Jurjura, the Tcherchesse of Caucasus. The cham- 
ois, like the Klephte, has for his sole property, the air of heaven, 
ice water, a good hamstring of steel tempered by the frosts, and 
then his liberty upon the mountain. It seems as though the wild 
sheep, the muffolo, can have no other country than Corsica — that 
island, never subdued, which cannot engender slaves. Few and 
dispersed over the globe live these noble remnants of strong hu- 
man races, like those of the ruminants of the cliffs ; for there is a 
coalition among all despots to annihilate the very last vestiges of 
the independence of the conquered, to efface the very names of the 
free peoples, that fill the sleej) of tyranny with nightmare dreams. 
Switzerland, independent and governing itself by its own dis- 
cretion, scandalizes absolute Austria, which fears the example for 
its stolen kingdoms, and the ill-wills of all the governments of 
Europe often combine to lend assistance to the Austrian absolut- 
ism. Thus behave the hunters and the idle men of fortune to- 
ward the chamois, the wild goat, the isard. The English of Aus- 
tralia, or the Spaniard of Hayti, have not applied the policy of 
extermination to the indigenous races with more fury, than the 
hunter of the Pyrenees and the Alps to the ruminants of the 
glaciers. 
