. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . ians calmness was almost too much. He wasalmost as resigned as a Mahommedan who believes inFate. Yet, though I remonstrated with him for his 223 THE INDIAN AND MENTAL POISE des])airing attitude so that we eventually got out, Ibelieve I would rather have that hraveiy of desj)airwhich dares to face death without complaining or whimpering, thanthe fault-finding,Why did youbring me into suchdangers? orShall I ever getout of this horribleplace ? that somewhite men indulgein. When, on theSal ton trip, wecame to th
. The Indians' secrets of health : or, What the white race may learn from the Indian . ians calmness was almost too much. He wasalmost as resigned as a Mahommedan who believes inFate. Yet, though I remonstrated with him for his 223 THE INDIAN AND MENTAL POISE des])airing attitude so that we eventually got out, Ibelieve I would rather have that hraveiy of desj)airwhich dares to face death without complaining or whimpering, thanthe fault-finding,Why did youbring me into suchdangers? orShall I ever getout of this horribleplace ? that somewhite men indulgein. When, on theSal ton trip, wecame to the begin-ning of the mostdangerous partwhere I had beentold we should gofifty miles in fiftym i n u t e s , andthere w^ere manyrapids which woulddash our boats topieces, and whereundermined cliffs,forty, fifty, and WALUTHAMA, MY HAVASUPAI GUIDE. mOrC fcct lngll, were likely to besuddenly precipitated into the river, and might fall uponus and our boats and send us to instant destruction;when 1 told my Indian of these dangers he calmlylooked me in the eye and answered my question, You. .^^ THE INDIAN AND MENTAL POISE afraid to go, Jim? with a counter question: Youafraid? And when I said No, and answered hisfurther You swim? with a Yes! he immediatelyrepKed; All right, I go. Of course I do not wish for one moment to suggestthat this virtue of courage is not the white mans. Forlove of home and country white men will go to deathwith a smile on their lips. But in work which the worlddoes not see, where men are simply paid two dollars aday wages, to face danger and possible death as a mat-ter of course, this I have found rare with the whiteman, and very common with an Indian. The facingof danger and death is part of their every-day life. Itcalls for the exercise of no special virtues. Strong inbody, daring in mind, fearless in soul, duty must bedone and done unhesitatingly, regardless of whetherdanger or death are lurking near. I am free to confessthis large bold faith in life and the
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