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CHAPTEE XV. 



THE RED-MEN AN INDIAN ' FLITTING' INTERVIEW WITH AN INDIAN 



FAMILY HORSE-INDIANS TIMBER-INDIANS FISH-INDIANS THE 



MUSTANG PICTURESQUE CAMP AMERICAN CHAR RECKLESSNESS 



OF MY FELLOW-TRAVELLER VIOLENT GALE EMIGRATION. 



THIS night we encamped upon a rather exposed stony 

 ridge, but the weather was favourable, and after a 

 good night's rest we were again en route by sunrise. 



' Indians are poison ' is a common expression 

 throughout the United States, very indicative of 

 the feelings with which the red-man is regarded by 

 our trans-Atlantic cousins. My sentiments towards 

 these aborigines are very different, and I think I 

 have good grounds for entertaining a more favourable 

 opinion of them. When the hunting-ground of a tribe 

 lies so far to the north as to be out of the track 

 of the white man, the adventurer may safely trust 

 himself among them, for they are brave, honest, and 

 proud. But if the white man with his fire-water 

 has had long and constant intercourse with these 

 children of the forest, they are to be avoided. Apt 

 scholars, they soon learn the vices of civilisation, viz., 

 to lie, cheat, and steal. 



In England people are very prone to blame the 

 American's Indian policy, but are there no black 



