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Does a neighbouring tribe prevail against the Apaches ? 

 negotiations for peace is only a bargain about tribute. 

 What is the logical expectation of result from a gift to an 

 Apache ? That he can and should do you an injury. To 

 his mind your gift is tribute an indication and result of 

 fear. If he can only do you an injury, then you will give 

 him more. 



I have inferred that generosity is unknown to the 

 Apaches. Perhaps I have wronged them. Their minds 

 are so differently constituted from ours that it is almost 

 impossible not to do so ; probably their idea of generosity 

 is different from ours. One form it takes is hospitality. 

 When an Apache feasts and all his meals are feasts if he 

 has plenty of food each and every one are welcome. You 

 may bring all your own relations, all your wives 1 relations 

 (I am supposing you to be a savage); they will all be 

 heartily welcome, though the result of numbers be insuffi- 

 ciency for each ; but you may sit down with him to the 

 greatest superabundance, and though he knows your family 

 are hungry at home, he will not give you a morsel to take 

 to them. A gift, except as a tribute of fear, never once 

 suggests itself to his mind. 



That there is a radical mental difference between the 

 races is as certain as that there are physical ones. The 

 dog and wolf as we are told mankind had may have 

 had one pair of ancestors, but the dog is naturally a 

 domestic animal ; so is the white man, and so are some 

 of the American tribes. The wolf still is he always will be 

 a savage ; so has been so always will be the Apache. 



The philanthropist sees no apparent reason why, with 



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