. The polar world [microform] : a popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe. Arctic races; Zoology; Races arctiques; Zoologie. \v.\i5s (V Tin: ( ni:i:s. ;io7. fMP'^'-''--'- vnvnl a\>(' Tn. 1 Lak. illKI '11 Kai »ii Iron 'NVISC ox avi'ii U'U>i >rt' \iii IsU' vc ,\V1I to llii'lr in>ith('i-ii and Avt'strrn iiciy'liboiii's, tlirv inlviiiictMl lis far as the Arctic Circle, iiii|M»siiiy' tribute on the various trilx's ut'the Tinm''. liut their triumphs were not luore Jurubh.' than those (tf the «4'roat FiUrojtean c»»n(juerx bi'oke v thuusunds.
. The polar world [microform] : a popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe. Arctic races; Zoology; Races arctiques; Zoologie. \v.\i5s (V Tin: ( ni:i:s. ;io7. fMP'^'-''--'- vnvnl a\>(' Tn. 1 Lak. illKI '11 Kai »ii Iron 'NVISC ox avi'ii U'U>i >rt' \iii IsU' vc ,\V1I to llii'lr in>ith('i-ii and Avt'strrn iiciy'liboiii's, tlirv inlviiiictMl lis far as the Arctic Circle, iiii|M»siiiy' tribute on the various trilx's ut'the Tinm''. liut their triumphs were not luore Jurubh.' than those (tf the «4'roat FiUrojtean c»»n(juerx bi'oke v thuusunds. JNIeaiiwliile tlie Tinne tribes had n;- mained untouchi'd by this terrilde scour^v ; and as theayvnts <if the Hudson's iJav Company, ars now partly min'rate^l to thi' south, and leavini; the I'nicst region, wliere they had hunted the reimU'er and the (Ik, spread over the prairies of the Saskatchewan, whore, iiH'unted on liorsoljack, they nctw pursued the lierds of bison. lint in their new abodes they became enyai^'ed in constant feuds with their new neighbours the Assiniboins and Jiiack- tirt. Avlio of course resented their intrusion. The romance in which tlio manners and character of tlie linlians are portrayed nii^'ht lead us to attribute to those; [Muple a loftiness of soul for which it would be vain to look ill the present day, an«l which without much scei»ticism wo 'nay assert they never really possessed. Actions, prompted I'lily by the caprice of a l>arbarous people, have boon con- sidered as the results of rotinod sentiment ; and savayo emiuin^', soon through the false medium of i)rejudiee, assumed tlie nobler proportions of a, far-sig'hted policy. Ihit though the history of the wars of the Indians among- themselves and with the Europeans ati'ords but foAv instances of heroism, it aKeunds in traits of revolting enielty. and in jiictures of in- ileseribablo wretchedness. A largo party of Blackfeet once made a successful loray ill the territory of the Crees. H
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