. Bill Nye's history of the United States. eart of their enemy plain. The Indian High School and Young LadiesSeminary captured by Columbus, as shown in thepictures of his arrival at home and his presentationto the royal pair one hundred and seventeen yearsbefore this, it is said, brought a royal flush to theface of Kinsf Ferdie, who had been well brouehtup. This can be readily understood when weremember that the Indian wore at court acourt plaster, a parlor-lamp-shade in stormy wea-ther, made of lawn grass, or a surcingle of frontteeth. They were shown also in all these paintings asgraceful an


. Bill Nye's history of the United States. eart of their enemy plain. The Indian High School and Young LadiesSeminary captured by Columbus, as shown in thepictures of his arrival at home and his presentationto the royal pair one hundred and seventeen yearsbefore this, it is said, brought a royal flush to theface of Kinsf Ferdie, who had been well brouehtup. This can be readily understood when weremember that the Indian wore at court acourt plaster, a parlor-lamp-shade in stormy wea-ther, made of lawn grass, or a surcingle of frontteeth. They were shown also in all these paintings asgraceful and beautiful in figure ; but in those dayswhen the Pocahontas girls went barefooted till theage of eighty-nine years, chewed tobacco, keptLent all winter and then ate a brace of middle- THE DISCOVERY OF NEW YORK. 79 aged men for Easter, the figure must have beenaffected by this irregularity of meals. Unless the Pocahontas of the present day hasfallen off sadly in her carriage and beauty, to besaved from death by her, as Smith was, and feel. i>^ THE INDIAN GIRL OF STORT. THE INDIAN GIRL OF FACT. that she therefore had a claim on him, must havegiven one nervous prostration, paresis, and in-somnia/ The Indian and the white race never reallyunited or amalgamated outside of Canada. TheIndian has always held aloof from us, and even as So HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. late as Sitting Bulls time that noted cavalry officersaid to the author that the white people who sim-ply came over in the Mayflower could not marryinto his family on that ground. He wanted to know why they Jiad to comeover in the Mayflower. We were here, said the


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