. Historic towns of the Southern States. THE little rock, TO WHICH THE CITY OWES ITS NAME. from the distant sea through the monotony ofthe low-lying wilderness. The original inhabitants of the region werethe Quapaw or Arkansas Indians, a race muchsuperior to the surrounding savages, and whodwelt not in scattered wigwams but in walledvillages, and seem always to have lived inamity with the whites. Father Pierre Fran-9ois de Charlevoix, an early French missionary, 540 Little Rock says of them, The Arkansas are reckonedto be the tallest and best-shaped of all thesavages on this continent, and he
. Historic towns of the Southern States. THE little rock, TO WHICH THE CITY OWES ITS NAME. from the distant sea through the monotony ofthe low-lying wilderness. The original inhabitants of the region werethe Quapaw or Arkansas Indians, a race muchsuperior to the surrounding savages, and whodwelt not in scattered wigwams but in walledvillages, and seem always to have lived inamity with the whites. Father Pierre Fran-9ois de Charlevoix, an early French missionary, 540 Little Rock says of them, The Arkansas are reckonedto be the tallest and best-shaped of all thesavages on this continent, and he speaks atlength of their kindness to the French, andtheir fidelity to their engagements. So Du. LITTLE ROCK LEVEE. Pratz, an early voyageiw, says : I am so pre-possessed in favor of this country that I per-suade myself that the beauty of the climatehas a o-reat influence on the character of theinhabitants, who are at the same time verygentle and very brave. In the days when Little Rock was a part ofthe favorite hunting-ground of the Quapawsit must have been a lovely spot. Then the Little Rock 541 tall trees grew untouched upon its rollinghills, and its numerous little streams, now con-verted into sewers, flowed murmuring beneathoverhanging ferns to mingle with the river. When it was first visited by white men noone knows. During 1541 and 1542 De Sotomarched back and forth througrh the reeion,seeking for gold with a Spaniards hunger;but the accounts of his wanderings are uncer-tain and confused, and the blood of the un-happy natives which once marked out hispathway has long since mingled with the dust. Then for almost two hundred years the sol-itude of the wilderness remained unb
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