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only necessary to suggest that it might be the 

 rule in future to lock the store except when the 

 clerk was present. The square deal is ap- 

 preciated by civilized and savage alike. 



When one thinks of the treachery and deceit 

 that have been practised by the whites in 

 America in their dealings with the Indians and 

 of the degradation and death wrought by the 

 white man's cupidity, his diseases and his 

 whiskey, one can not but be filled with shame 

 and remorse, that this, the noblest race of 

 primitive men, should have been treated so 

 vilely. The unusually fine character of the 

 unspoiled Indian we are discovering when it is 

 too late, although Catlin pointed it out long 

 ago, and for many years the inhuman saying 

 has been flippantly repeated that there is " No 

 good Indian but a dead one." 



In former times the Indians coming from the 

 interior erected their wigwams at Mingan near 

 the trading post. Hind says. " Four hundred 

 Montagnais had pitched their tents at Mingan, 

 a fortnight before we arrived, there to dispose 

 of their furs, the produce of the preceding 

 winter's hunt, and to join in the religious 

 ceremonies of the Roman Catholic church 



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