. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . igid cjuality whicli has proved his ruin. Hewill not learn the arts of civilisation, and he and his forest must perish stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration from theirvery immutability; and we look with deep interest on the fate of this irre-claimable son of the wilderness, the child who will not be weaned from thebreast of his rugged mother. And our interest increases when we discernin
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . igid cjuality whicli has proved his ruin. Hewill not learn the arts of civilisation, and he and his forest must perish stern, unchanging features of his mind excite our admiration from theirvery immutability; and we look with deep interest on the fate of this irre-claimable son of the wilderness, the child who will not be weaned from thebreast of his rugged mother. And our interest increases when we discernin the imhappy wanderer mingled among his vices, the genns of heroic virtues— a hand bountiful to bestow as it is rapacious to seize, and even in extremestfamine, imparting its last morsel to a fellow-sufferer; a lieart which, strongin friendship as in hate, thinks it not too much to lay down life for its chosencomrade; a soul true to its own idea of honour, and burning with an imquench-able thirst for greatness and renown. The imprisoned lion in the showmans cage differs not more widely fromthe lord of the desert than the beggarly frequenter of frontier garrisons and. An Indian Chief THE INDIANS 525 dramshops differs from the proud denisen of the woods. It is in his nativewilds alone that the Indian must be seen and studied. If, from the shades of rock and forest, the savage features should look toogrimly forth, it is because the clouds of a tempestuous war have cast uponthe picture their murky shadows and lurid ;W THEODORE ROOSEVELT ON INDIAN WARFARE AND CRUELTY* When the whites first landed, the superiority and, above all, the noveltyof their arms gave them a very great advantage. But the Indians soon becameaccustomed to the new-comers weapons and style of warfare. By the timethe English had consolidated the Atlantic colonies under their rule, the Indianshad become what they have remained ever since, the most formidable savagefoes ever encountered by colonists of Eur
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