Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . furiatedl^east, which often are instantly turned, and presented for the fatal receptionof its too familiar attendant. These frightiul collisions often take place,notvvithstanding the sagacity of the horse, and the caution of its rider; forin these extraordinary (and inexpressible) exhilarations of chase, which seemto dr
Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . furiatedl^east, which often are instantly turned, and presented for the fatal receptionof its too familiar attendant. These frightiul collisions often take place,notvvithstanding the sagacity of the horse, and the caution of its rider; forin these extraordinary (and inexpressible) exhilarations of chase, which seemto drown the prudence alike, of instinct and reason, both horse and rider oftenseem rushing on to destruction, as if it were mere pastime and amusement.* I have always counted myself a prudent man, yet 1 have often waked (asit were) out of the delirium of the chase (into which I had fallen, as into anagitated sleep, and through which I had passed as through a delightfuldream), where to have died would have been but to have remained, ridingon, without a struggle or a pang. In some of these, too, 1 have arisen from the praiiie, covered with dirt and * The reader will be further instructed on this suliject, by referring back to plate 9,m the beginning of the boolc. r-.:-/ ,-^ /. 107 -z- ^-y.^: ys-i ^ I^^^^MAt^
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