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one's way, that misfortune not unfrequently entailing 

 death by starvation or fatigue. I suppose it must 

 be the constant exercise of the bump of locality 

 through successive generations that has rendered the 

 North American Indian so sure a guide through 

 pathless forests and over boundless prairies, an 

 instinct, if I may so term it, in which the red man 

 has infinitely the advantage over his white brother. 



