. Two days at Niagara Falls. -- . whitecanoe which was decked with fruitsand flowers. The honor of beingchosen as the heroine of this humansacrifice was eagerly coveted by theIndian maidens. On one occasion the daughter ofthe chief was selected. Her fatherbetrayed no feeling, but as thewhite canoe, guided by his daugh-ters hand, reached the rapids, heleaped into a canoe and followedher, nearly overtaking her andmeeting his death a few momentsafterwards. ODERN fancy portrays thereal spirits of the Indianmaidens sacrificed to thespirit of Niagara in days gone byas idealized into the Maiden of th
. Two days at Niagara Falls. -- . whitecanoe which was decked with fruitsand flowers. The honor of beingchosen as the heroine of this humansacrifice was eagerly coveted by theIndian maidens. On one occasion the daughter ofthe chief was selected. Her fatherbetrayed no feeling, but as thewhite canoe, guided by his daugh-ters hand, reached the rapids, heleaped into a canoe and followedher, nearly overtaking her andmeeting his death a few momentsafterwards. ODERN fancy portrays thereal spirits of the Indianmaidens sacrificed to thespirit of Niagara in days gone byas idealized into the Maiden of theMist: a mjthical and typical mai-den, dwelling at the base of theFalls, and continuously both by dayand night disporting herself in theever rising and never failing cloudsof mist or spra), awaiting andgreeting the spirits of those victims(some unfortunate by accident, andsome more unfortunate by suicide)who from time to time yield uptheir lives to Niagara, or as the In-dians pronounced it, Ni-a-ga-ra, the Thunderer ofWaters. /\. A River Drive at Niagara. AU the pictures you may see, all the descriptions you may readof Niagara, can only produce in your mind the faint glimmer ofthe glow-worm compared with the overpowering beauty and glorjof the meridian sun. — /. /. A iidubon.
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