. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . on, and partly from the spon-taneous bounty of their climate :— << When we attentively examine this wild part of America, weappear to be carried back to the first ages, when the earth waspeopled step by step—we seem to assist at the birth of humansocieties. In the Old World, we behold the pastoral Hfe preparea people of huntsmen for the agricultural life. In the New World,we look in vain for these progressive developments of civilization—these moments of repose—these resting-places in the life of a peopleThe luxury of vegetation embarrasses the Indian
. Wild scenes of a hunter's life; . on, and partly from the spon-taneous bounty of their climate :— << When we attentively examine this wild part of America, weappear to be carried back to the first ages, when the earth waspeopled step by step—we seem to assist at the birth of humansocieties. In the Old World, we behold the pastoral Hfe preparea people of huntsmen for the agricultural life. In the New World,we look in vain for these progressive developments of civilization—these moments of repose—these resting-places in the life of a peopleThe luxury of vegetation embarrasses the Indian in the chase. Asthe rivers are like arms of the sea, the depth of the water for manymonths prevents their fishing. Those species of ruminating animalswhich constitute the riches of the people of the Old World, arewanting in the New. The bison and the musk-ox have not ye^been reduced to the domestic state ; the enormous multiplicatiofof the llama and the guanaco has not produced in the natives .hihabits of the pastoral HUNTING THE REIN-DEER. in
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