How the world travels . the firstof the new lands to be discovered, we will go backto the days when Red Indians lived in the forestsand rode their wild, hardy ponies across theprairies. The Indians had no wheeled convey-ances, but they harnessed their ponies to strangelittle sleds, which dragged on the ground and sup-ported the long tent poles and heavy loads ofhousehold gear. These Red Indians were very brave but savageand treacherous, and they bitterly resented thecoming of strangers into their land. The early settlers lived in constant dread ofattack and massacre, and they were always armed
How the world travels . the firstof the new lands to be discovered, we will go backto the days when Red Indians lived in the forestsand rode their wild, hardy ponies across theprairies. The Indians had no wheeled convey-ances, but they harnessed their ponies to strangelittle sleds, which dragged on the ground and sup-ported the long tent poles and heavy loads ofhousehold gear. These Red Indians were very brave but savageand treacherous, and they bitterly resented thecoming of strangers into their land. The early settlers lived in constant dread ofattack and massacre, and they were always armedwhen they cultivated their clearings in the forestsor ventured further and further afield into the un-discovered country of the West. The conveyances used by the colonists of North 63* 64 HOW THE WORLD TRAVELS America were large, hooded wagons, very muchUke those to be seen in Africa, and in these prairieschooners, as they were sometimes called, thepioneers carried their wives and their children outinto the AMERICAN TROTTER. The wagons were drawn by teams of stronghorses, mules, or oxen, and large numbers ofemigrants generally travelled together. This wasnecessary, as small parties would almost certainlyhave been attacked by the Indians. JOURNEYS IN THE NEW WORLD 65 Even when they did travel in company thecolonists were not always safe, and a man who
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