Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . 22 AN INDIAN 170 THRILLING MISSIONAKY PEEACHING 10 THE INDIA The Indians are remarkable for their sense of pro-priety. In a deliberative assembly, tbey preservethe strictest decorum. The speakers address theassembly in a certain order, according to their speaker is ever interrupted, or coughed down, orcalled to order, as among civilized nations. This cha-racteris
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . 22 AN INDIAN 170 THRILLING MISSIONAKY PEEACHING 10 THE INDIA The Indians are remarkable for their sense of pro-priety. In a deliberative assembly, tbey preservethe strictest decorum. The speakers address theassembly in a certain order, according to their speaker is ever interrupted, or coughed down, orcalled to order, as among civilized nations. This cha-racteristic of the Indians has been of great service tothe whites in their intercourse with them. It has ob-tained a patient hearing of our deputies in all nego-tiations and treaties; and it has procured for thenumerous missionaries who have been sent amongthem a respectful attention. This sense of proprietyin the Indians appears in the following anecdote. History presents few instances of greater valour andmagnanimity than are displayed in the character ofOpechanchanough, an Indian chief Bold, artful, in-sinuating, skilled in dissimulation and intrigue, hefor many years kept the settlers of Virginia in a stateof continual alarm, and more than once mena
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