. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . hem was filled withvast hordes of the Klamath or Digger Indians, not, however, re-duced to the miser-able wretches thatthey are , they were thelords of the land,subsisting upon theplentiful g i f t s ofmother earth, strongand brave. The vicesof the white man,which his superiorstrength defies, arethe destruction ofthat lower race, andlike those of so manyother tribes, the mod-ern Digger docs notfitly represent hisfathers; though eventhen this tribe was inferior to the Apaches and Comanches. Thecurious in such matters may refer this to the
. Our pioneer heroes and their daring deeds . hem was filled withvast hordes of the Klamath or Digger Indians, not, however, re-duced to the miser-able wretches thatthey are , they were thelords of the land,subsisting upon theplentiful g i f t s ofmother earth, strongand brave. The vicesof the white man,which his superiorstrength defies, arethe destruction ofthat lower race, andlike those of so manyother tribes, the mod-ern Digger docs notfitly represent hisfathers; though eventhen this tribe was inferior to the Apaches and Comanches. Thecurious in such matters may refer this to the difference in theirfood ; would it not be better to conclude that the higher courageattacked the larger game, while the Klamaths were content towar upon and live upon grasshoppers ? For so did the Diggersanticipate the experiments of our later entomologists. Long before the days of which we write, the Spaniards hadestablished missionary stations along the coast of California,about thirty or forty miles apart, for the purpose of Christianiz-. CIIRISTOPHEB CARSON. 408 KIT CARSON. ing the Indians. Each little community was under the govern-ment of a prefect, always a prie^, whose temporal authority wasequalled only by his spiritual. He was appointed by the Crownof Spain, and that government contributed a considerable sumfor the maintainance of these missions. Attached to each ofthese stations was a bandof Indians, for whose labors the worthyfathers conceived that the religious instruction given them madea full return. When, therefore, the Indians became restive undertheir burden of forced labor, and forty of them deserted, themissionaries lost little time in appealing to Capt. Young and histrappers, for assistance in compelling the neighboring tribes not
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