The Open court . s of the missionaries who enslaved them. The fact that they navigated the ocean for some distance incanoes, rudely constructed of bark (according to the statements ofthe Spanish conquerors) is proof that they were skilful and enter-prising. Navigators and scientists from France, Russia, the UnitedStates and other foreign countries who visited this coast in theearly part of this century, all unite in stating that the Indians wereheld in bondage mental as well as physical, and that the methodsused by the priests in obtaining converts was little better thankidnapping, and that th
The Open court . s of the missionaries who enslaved them. The fact that they navigated the ocean for some distance incanoes, rudely constructed of bark (according to the statements ofthe Spanish conquerors) is proof that they were skilful and enter-prising. Navigators and scientists from France, Russia, the UnitedStates and other foreign countries who visited this coast in theearly part of this century, all unite in stating that the Indians wereheld in bondage mental as well as physical, and that the methodsused by the priests in obtaining converts was little better thankidnapping, and that their treatment was worse than that ac-corded to the serfs of Russia, or the negroes of the Southern States. Ethnologists and philologists who have made an exhaustivestudy of the Hindu, Chinese, and Japanese races, have discov-ered convincing testimony that the Indians found in Mexico andthe Californias are descended from the Mongolian. Protius holdsthat the Peruvians are descended from the Chinese, and states that.
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