Excerpt from Camping in the Muskoka Region But all is now changed: the buffalo, which furnished both food and clothing, has become almost extinct. The giving up of their nomadic life, and the adoption Of the vices only' Of civilized humanity, are steadily and surely decimating the number Of the Indians, and in this, as in all other parts of the continent, the introduction Of the white has been the sure forerunner of the destruction Of the red man. And It requires not the eye of a seer to see in the near future those vast ...
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Excerpt from Camping in the Muskoka Region But all is now changed: the buffalo, which furnished both food and clothing, has become almost extinct. The giving up of their nomadic life, and the adoption Of the vices only' Of civilized humanity, are steadily and surely decimating the number Of the Indians, and in this, as in all other parts of the continent, the introduction Of the white has been the sure forerunner of the destruction Of the red man. And It requires not the eye of a seer to see in the near future those vast plains covered with cities, towns, and villages, and a teeming population; when those wide, rolling rivers will be covered with a fleet Of steamboats, freighted with the products Of the loom, the anvil, and the soil, and the smoke Of the locomotive hovering over the plains in every direction, while the native red man will have become almost extinct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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