Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . ^^P^:Sfc^^^^^^^. ? • #• cluster of his wigwams mingled amongst the trees ; and, liJ^e Caius Mariiis,weeping over the ruins of Carthage, shed tears as he was descanting on thepoverty of his ill-fated little community, which he told me had once beeapowerful and happy; that the buffaloes which the Great Spirit had giventhe
Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . ^^P^:Sfc^^^^^^^. ? • #• cluster of his wigwams mingled amongst the trees ; and, liJ^e Caius Mariiis,weeping over the ruins of Carthage, shed tears as he was descanting on thepoverty of his ill-fated little community, which he told me had once beeapowerful and happy; that the buffaloes which the Great Spirit had giventhem for food, and which formerly spread all over their green prairies,had all been killed or driven out by the approach of white men, who wantedtheir skins ; that their country was now entirely destitute of game, andeven of roots for their food, as it was one continued prairie ; and that hisyoung men penetrating the countries of their enemies for buffaloes, whichthey were obliged to do, were cut to pieces and destroyed in great his people had foolishly become fond o^ fire-iv-ater (whiskey), and hadgiven away everything in their country for it—that it had destroyed manyof his warriors, and soon would destroy the rest—that his tribe was toosmall, and his warriors to
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