A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . ater inquirers is, that a tribe ofIndians, the Mandans, showed, if not traces of an intermixture withthe blood of the whites, at least a marked difference between themselves SUPPOSED TRACES OF THE WELSH. 73 and other native tribes. Among them were in use certain words inwhich is a resemblance, or a fancied resemblance, to the old Britishlanguage
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . ater inquirers is, that a tribe ofIndians, the Mandans, showed, if not traces of an intermixture withthe blood of the whites, at least a marked difference between themselves SUPPOSED TRACES OF THE WELSH. 73 and other native tribes. Among them were in use certain words inwhich is a resemblance, or a fancied resemblance, to the old Britishlanguage. In the manufacture of their pottery, and in the making ofblue beads, they are said to have shown a superiority overthe ordinary savage. Mr. Catlin believed them to be a cross theory and^between the Indians and the Welsh, and is inclined to ac- ^^^^^^cept a theory, favored also by some other writers, that the Mandansare the descendants of the Mound Builders, and that the buildersof those numerous earth-works were the people originating in The boat they used, Catlin says, was more like the coracleof the Welsh than the canoe of other Indians; and he asserts that incomplexion, in the color of their hair and eyes, they seemed rather. Mandan Boats. to be allied to the white than the red race. Even the late AlbertGallatin, deservedly a high authority on any point relating to theNorth American Indians, acknowledges that a chief of this tribe whom 1 Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, in their expedition across the continent, passed the winter of1804-5, among the Mandans and other Indians on the Upper Missouri; but there is nothingin their journal to indicate that they observed those striking differences in complexion, incharacter, and customs, between the Mandans and other tribes, which Catlin describesat great length. The method of making the beads which Mr. Catlin considers so sig-nificant a fact, Lewis and Clarke say was known to the Ricarees as well as to the Man-dans. As th
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