. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . which tend to that belief. Manners and superstitions are, of course, in many respects still thoroughlyIndian. Games in which physical strength and skill are required are popularamong all the tribes, and the ball-players are fine specimens of men. Hospi-tality is unbounded, and as soon as an Indian of wealth and station takes awife, all her re
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . which tend to that belief. Manners and superstitions are, of course, in many respects still thoroughlyIndian. Games in which physical strength and skill are required are popularamong all the tribes, and the ball-players are fine specimens of men. Hospi-tality is unbounded, and as soon as an Indian of wealth and station takes awife, all her relatives, even the most distant, come to live on his estate, andremain forever, or until they have impoverished him. The tyranny of mothers-in-law in the Territory is something frightful to contemplate. One Indian gaveas his reason for not wishing to get rich the torments which his relatives, incase he married, would cause him. Food is simple among all the nations. Corn, ground with mortar andpestle, furnishes the material for bread ; a few vegetables are grown; and game,pork and beef are abundant. The hog of the Indian Territory is a singular animal. Having always runwild, he is as distinguished for thinness as are his brethren of civilization for. The ball-players are fine specimensof men. [ARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY RELATION. 203 corpulence, and his back well merits the epithet of razor-edge applied to feeds itself, winter and summer, and there is rarely a season when it isnecessary to put up any hay. In the winter of 1871 grass along the Arkansasbottom was green until the middle of December. Marriage is gradually becoming a recognized institution among all the tribes,the efforts of the missionaries tending to encourage it; but heretofore men andwomen have simply cohabited without formal tie and reared families. The usualpractice has been for a young man who has become enamored of a maiden toingratiate himself with her brother, or with a near male relative, and for thela
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