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 . ious night of fear, and with the firstdawn of day hastily quitted the ill-omened spot. • A MOST striking tribute to worth was paid a fewyears ago, by a party of poor Indians who came fromthe back country to visit Philadelphia. When the statue in the Pennsylvania Hospitalyard was pointed out to them as the figure of FatherOnas, or Penn, they all with one accord fell down ontheir knees before
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 . ious night of fear, and with the firstdawn of day hastily quitted the ill-omened spot. • A MOST striking tribute to worth was paid a fewyears ago, by a party of poor Indians who came fromthe back country to visit Philadelphia. When the statue in the Pennsylvania Hospitalyard was pointed out to them as the figure of FatherOnas, or Penn, they all with one accord fell down ontheir knees before it j thus testifying, in the strongestmanner in their power, their reverence for the cha-racter of one of the few white men who have treatedtheir race with humanity. It was not an exhibition got up for effect; it wasthe spontaneous result of feeling—of a deeply im-planted feeling, which neither time nor distance hadbeen able to destroy. It had descended from fatherto son; it had been cherished in the Western wilds;and it broke forth in the midst of civilized society,and was evinced by the strongest of natural signs—reverence on the Jcnee! Indians before the Statue of Penn. TREEING A BEAR. 137. BLACK BEAE. The Indians consider the black bear as the mostvaluable of wild animals, and the chase of it as theirnoblest field-sport, its death being always followed byexpressions of the greatest exultation. It is, indeed,highly useful to them; and, like the ox and thesheep, there is no part of it which is not applied tosome useful purpose. The flesh is highly esteemed,and the paws are reckoned the richest bonne louchethat the wild forests of America afford. The skinfurnishes their softest couch, and their most sub-stantial protection against the severities of the claws have their value: they are bored andstrung upon the tendons of deer, to be worn as neck-laces and other ornaments. In the vicinity of Hudsons Bay, the black bear 18 m2 188 THRILLING ADVENTURES. has been o
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