this means a stuffed Mylodon, a stuffed Beathach, stuffed five-horned
antelopes and a stuffed Bunyip, with a common gorilla and the Toltec
mummy, now forever silent, were passed through the New York Custom House,
and consigned to the McCabe Museum of Natural Varieties.

The immense case that contained the discovery of Jones Harvey was also
carefully conveyed to an apartment prepared for it in the same
repository. The competitors sought their hotels, Te-iki-pa marching
beside Logan and Jones Harvey. But, by special arrangement, either Jones
Harvey or his Maori ally always slept beside their mysterious case, which
they watched with passionate attention. Two or three days were spent in
setting up the stuffed exhibits. Then the trustees, through _The Yellow
Flag_ (the paper founded by the late Mr. McCabe), announced to the
startled citizens the nature of the competition. On successive days the
vast theatre of the McCabe Museum would be open, and each competitor, in
turn, would display to the public his contribution, and lecture on his
adventures and on the variety of nature which he had secured.

While the death of the animals was deplored, nothing was said, for
obvious reasons, about the causes of the catastrophe.

The general excitement was intense. Interviewers scoured the city, and
flocked, to little purpose, around the officials of the McCabe Museum.
Special trains were run from all quarters. The hotels were thronged.
'America,' it was announced, 'had taken hold of science, and was just
going to make science hum.'

On the first day of the exhibition, Dr. Hiram Dodge displayed the stuffed
Mylodon. The agitation was unprecedented. America had bred, in ancient
days, and an American citizen had discovered, the monstrous yet amiable
animal whence prehistoric Patagonia drew her milk supplies and cheese
stuffs. Mr. Dodge's adventures, he modestly said, could only be
adequately narrated by Mr. Rider Haggard. Unluckily the Mylodon had not
survived the conditions of the voyage, the change of climates. The
applause was thunderous. Mr. Dodge gracefully expressed his obligations
to his fair and friendly rival, Mr. Jones Harvey, who had loaned his
taxidermic appliances. It did not appear to the public that the Mylodon
could be excelled in interest. The Toltec mummy, as he could no longer
talk, was flat on a falling market, nor was Mr. Rustler's narrative of
its conversational powers accepted by the scepticism of th