. A family flight around home. INDIAN WEAPONS. dead of night from cabins set on fire by these relentless enemies. Before the arrival of white people in America, the Indians, without fire-arms, and without whiskey, which had a fatal influence 40 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. upon the disposition of the race, possessed, doubtless, many inter-esting traits of character. The Indian was essentially a child of nature. His life was onelong struggle, for his daily food depended on the skill with which. SQUAWS BUILDING A WIGWAM. he used his bow, on the courage with which he fought fiercebeasts, on the q
. A family flight around home. INDIAN WEAPONS. dead of night from cabins set on fire by these relentless enemies. Before the arrival of white people in America, the Indians, without fire-arms, and without whiskey, which had a fatal influence 40 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. upon the disposition of the race, possessed, doubtless, many inter-esting traits of character. The Indian was essentially a child of nature. His life was onelong struggle, for his daily food depended on the skill with which. SQUAWS BUILDING A WIGWAM. he used his bow, on the courage with which he fought fiercebeasts, on the quickness with which he tracked, and the cunningwith which he outwitted the timid, keen-scented animals of theforest. The clearness of his vision, and the sharpness of liishearing were wonderful by which he followed an obscure trailover diflficult ground; with a cat-like tread, over beds of fallenleaves and heaps of dried twigs, walking close up to the grazingdeer. Courage and fortitude in bodily suffering he possessed toa high degree ; yet he was given to the dark and crooked belong to the weak and cowardly. His favorite method ofwarfare was to rouse his sleeping enemies at dead of night withan unearthly yell, to massacre them by the light of their burning ABOUT INDIANS. 41 homes. Cool and brave men who have heard that whoop, havetestified that no number of repetitions could strip it of its terror;that at the sound of it the blood curdled, the heart ceased tobeat, and a sort
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