394 ANCIENT ABORIGINAL TRADE IN NORTH AMERICA. 



Greater, however, than these and many other advantagevS were the 

 evils which the contact with the whites brought upon them ; and in 

 succumbing to the overwhelming power of the Caucasians, they shared 

 the fate of every inferior race that takes up the contest with one occu- 

 pying a higher rank in the family of men. 



