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The unexampled growth had wrought many changes; not the least was the way in which it lessened the importance of the first hunter-settlers and hunter-soldiers. The great herds of game had been woefully thinned, and certain species, as the buffalo, practically destroyed.
A few days after their arrival they were joined by another batch of hunter-settlers, who had come out under the leadership of Kasper Mansker. This act gives an insight into at least some of the motives that influenced the adventurers. But another and most powerful spring of action was the desire to gain land not merely land for settlement, but land for speculative purposes.
Singly or in groups, the daring hunters roved through the vast reaches of sombre woodland, and pitched their camps on the banks of rushing rivers, nameless and unknown. In bands of varying size the hunter-settlers followed close behind, and built their cabins and block-houses here and there in the great forest land.
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