consumption, because forced
to live in a climate too cold and damp
for them, and no amount of artificial
heat can supply the element to which they
have been accustomed in the air of their
native tropic groves and jungles.
Seals are kept in tanks
of fresh water, when salt water is their
natural element. Their captive lives are
always short.
There is no form of organized
life but is a part and belonging of the
locality and latitude where in its wild
state it is born. The polar bear is a
natural belonging of the Arctic regions.
The monkey is a belonging and outgrowth
of tropical conditions. When either of
these is taken from climes native to them,
and out of which they do not voluntarily
wander, pain is inflicted on them.
Go to the cheap "museum,"
now so plentiful, and regard the bedraggled
plumage and apparent sickly condition
of many of the birds, natives of distant
climes, imprisoned there. You see them
but for an hour. Return in a few months
and you will not find them. What has become
of them. They have died, and their places
are supplied by others likewise slowly
dying. The procession of captives so to
suffer and die prematurely never ceases
moving into these places. Ships are constantly
bringing them hither. An army of men distributed
all over the world, and ranging through
the forests of every clime, is constantly
engaged in trapping them. For what reasons
are all these concentrations of captured
misery, now to be found in every large
town and city of our country? Simply to
gratify human curiosity. Simply that we
may stand a few minutes and gaze at them
behind their
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