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pearing on the frontier he persisted in following her. Even 

 some grown persons (among the captives) showed an unwil- 

 lingness to return. The Shawanes were obliged to bind sev- 

 eral of their prisoners to force them along to camp, and 

 some women who had been delivered up, afterwards found 

 means to escape and run back to the Indian town. Some 

 who could not escape, clung to their savage acquaintances at 

 parting, and continued many days in bitter lamentations, even 

 refusing sustenance." * 



This shows beyond the possibility of mistake that 

 the Indians were by no means destitute of the finer 

 feelings of humanity, and were possessed in very strong 

 degree of sincere affection for their companions of the 

 white race. It also proves how thoroughly the fascinations 

 of the Wilderness had enchained these supposed unhappy 

 and unfortunate captives, who had become almost 

 more Indian than the Indians themselves. 



The only parallel to it is to be found among the 

 English settlers resident in Ireland. " beyond the pale " 

 during the Tudor period, some of whom, in like manner, 

 had adopted the native Irish ways, and like the white 

 Indians had become " Hiberniores ipsis Hibernis. " 



In order to correct misconceptions, and put this 

 matter in its true light therefore, we have been specially 

 careful to mention the case of the " White Indians " of 

 America, because it shows in the clearest manner that 

 the native red man was not, as some have maintained, 

 altogether a fiend in human shape and entirely dead 

 to the feelings of humanity; for notwithstanding the 

 many drawbacks of the Indian life, Indian kindness and 

 hospitality constantly won over to itself very many 



* An Historical Account of the Expedition against the Ohio Indians 

 in 1764 under command of Henry Bouquet, now Brigadier-General in 

 America, publ. Philadelphia 1766, pp. 26 to 29. 



