“It is entirely by human beings that every one of my subjects has been destroyed,” the King told him, as they stopped to admire and talk to a splendid grizzly bear, whose coat of light-brown fur was tipped with silver. “Some, like my Mexican friend here, the men quite deliberately shot, trapped and poisoned out of existence; but many others vanished because men destroyed their natural habitats and they couldn’t adapt themselves to live elsewhere.”
