![]() It is generally believed that the Aborigines of the American continent have an Asiatic origin. These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic. ![]() In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste. ![]() Still there is so much obscurity in the Indian traditions, and so much confusion in the Indian names, as to render some explanation useful.įew men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America. ![]() It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the information necessary to understand its allusions, are rendered sufficiently obvious to the reader in the text itself, or in the accompanying notes. ![]()
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