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Vol. I. OCTOBEK, 1870. No. I. 



ON THE 



CHARACTER AND CUSTOMS 



OF 



THE PAWNEES, 



By rev. T. E. RANNEY, of Holland, Vt.,* 

 (post office address, derby line, vt.) 



Read before the Orleans County Society of Natural Sciences, 



July 12, 1870. 



From the time of the fost discovery of this continent, 



the inhal)itants of the other have always manifested a great 



0:> degree of interest in the occupants of this. Princes have 



". , left the abodes of civilization and refinement, and followed 



the savages in their roamings over the prairies, and have 



err *Mr. Ranney was missionary among the Pawnees three years, and 

 among the Cherokees fomteen years. We think it would be desirable 

 if Mr. Ranney would prepare a grammar of the latter language. 



