-jawed brutes, his own state would be one of danger;
so that to rest was as much as he felt inclined to do, and when sleep
made her claims upon him he could scarcely close his eyes before he
started up wide awake, as some howling monster scented the horse and its
owner, and feared to gratify its appetite lest the dreaded man should
have to be encountered.

There are few comparisons more singular than that between the pathless
wilds of portions of Africa and the crowded streets of some of our
cities. When we walk for hours in London and meet an ever-changing mass
of men; when we see streets thronged with thousands, houses
over-crowded, and vehicles crammed--we wonder whether our planet must
not soon be too densely populated to be a suitable residence for man;
but when we travel over immense tracts of land traversed only by the
brute creation, and observe these roaming in a state of undisturbed
freedom, we almost doubt the fact of men being crowded together in
cities, as we believe we have seen them--the two extremes seeming a
complete anomaly. We who live in the present century have the advantage
of witnessing scenes which our successors will undoubtedly envy us for.
At the rate at which civilisation advances, and man and his arts take
the place of untrodden nature, it may not be improbable that the wilds
of Africa, Australia, and America may cease to be wilds, but will be
colonies of various races, whose countries are too small for their
requirements. In the year 1967 or 4067 the report that the men of two
centuries previous actually hunted such creatures as camelopards, may
seem as odd to the then denizens of our planet as it would be to us to
think that men ever had the chance of hurling their flint-headed weapons
at the mammoth on the banks of the great Estuary of the Thames. The men
too of that time may often exclaim, "Ah, those lucky fellows of the
nineteenth century who had the chance of hunting elephants in Africa!"
Thus the changes that now occur in localities will then have occurred by
time, and as it now appears strange to the man who can scarcely find
elbow-room for himself, to hear of a country where you may ride for two
days and not see a fellow-creature, so will it in a century hence seem
strange to reflect on the conditions of the past. Scarcely had daylight
began to break than Bernhard gave his horse liberty to feed, he himself
being intent on procuring a supply of food for his journey. This he was