394 ANCIENT ABORIGINAL TRADE IN NORTH AMERICA. 



Greater, however, tban these and many other advantages were the 

 evils which the contact with the wliites 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 Ciicu- 

 pyiug a higher rank in tlj^ family of men. 



