Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . INDIAN CHILDREN. 209 than poetical, and it can hardly be expected that any-cultivated reader should take sufficient interest in thesubject to make him wish for even a specimen. Indian The Indians have been frequently represented asilmost devoid of natural affection, or indeed of feel-ing altogether ; but this is a mistake, which probablyarises from the great command over their feel
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . INDIAN CHILDREN. 209 than poetical, and it can hardly be expected that any-cultivated reader should take sufficient interest in thesubject to make him wish for even a specimen. Indian The Indians have been frequently represented asilmost devoid of natural affection, or indeed of feel-ing altogether ; but this is a mistake, which probablyarises from the great command over their feelingswhich they are in the habit of exercising, particularlywhen in the presence of strangers. Those personswho have had the best opportunities of knowing thereal character of the Indians have remarked, amongstmany other good traits, the great affection that theyhave for their children, and the respect which youngpeople pay, not only to their own parents, but to allelderly people. Before they can run alone, th 3 little papoose is con-fined in a cradle which is carried on the mothersback while she is at her work, or set upright againstthe wall. The children, both boys and girls, appear to beparticula
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