. Young people's history of Virginia and Virginians . and fatigue. Indian runners sometimestravelled seventy-five miles a day. They were sometimeskind and true to their friends, but were habitually deceitful,treacherous and cruel toward their enemies, sometimesremembering a favor, but never forgetting an injury. Theywere trained to self-control, and seldom showed any emotion,either of pleasure or pain, but endured the latter withoutflinching. They used few words, but nothing escaped theirnotice, and their eyes andears were so trained thatthey could follow the trailof a deer or of an enemythrou
. Young people's history of Virginia and Virginians . and fatigue. Indian runners sometimestravelled seventy-five miles a day. They were sometimeskind and true to their friends, but were habitually deceitful,treacherous and cruel toward their enemies, sometimesremembering a favor, but never forgetting an injury. Theywere trained to self-control, and seldom showed any emotion,either of pleasure or pain, but endured the latter withoutflinching. They used few words, but nothing escaped theirnotice, and their eyes andears were so trained thatthey could follow the trailof a deer or of an enemythrough the pathless for-ests by the turning of thedry leaves or the twistingof a bough, distinguish thefootstep of man or beast,friend or foe, and could alsoimitate the calls of birdsand animals so as to bringthem within range of theirbows. Their Weapons.—Theywere armed with clubs,spears and tomahawks, which they used in war, and bows andarrows, used chiefly in hunting. Their arrows had sharp-pointed heads of flint-stone, or sometimes of bone; but it. INDIAN BOY LEARNING TO SHOOT 32 Young Peoples History was not long after the Europeans came before the greed ofthe traders, notwithstanding the enactment of laws prohibit-ing the sale of firearms to the natives, supplied them withguns, which they learned to use with great skill. Theirmode of warfare was to steal secretly through the woods, onebehind the other, in what is yet called Indian file, and sur-prise the villages and camps of their enemy by night, killingmen, women and children without mercy; or to lay in waitand surprise their enemies on the march. Their Education.—The boys and girls were taught toweave mats, string shells, dress skins, make bows and boys were taught to use the bow, to spear fish, to bearhunger and fatigue, to endure pain without a murmur, andto do such things as required skill and courage. One of theirreputed games was to stand up in a row, put live coals undertheir naked arms and press them c
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