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next. Great logs, 8 or 9 feet in length and 

 I foot in diameter, redden and glow in the 

 camp-fire, which consumes fuel enough in one 

 night to keep an ordinary fireplace going for 

 a month. The kettle, suspended at the end of 

 a pole, is soon boiling, ready for tea ; the frying- 

 pan sends forth an odour pleasing to the hungry, 

 and he eats his supper of pork, tea, and bread 

 in the woods with more appetite than civilisation 

 has ever given him at home. 



In conclusion, I will add a few remarks con- 

 cerning the Indian character as a hint to fishermen 

 or hunters when employing them. 



The Indian has the mind of a child in the 

 body of an adult. The struggle for existence 

 weeds out the weak and the sickly, the slow and 

 the stupid, and creates a race physically perfect, 

 and mentally fit to cope with the conditions they 

 are forced to meet so long as they are left to 

 themselves. 



Those who have no knowledge of Indians 

 imagine them to be merely ignorant people, like 

 uneducated individuals of the white race. This 

 is not the case. The Indian is not like the white 

 man of any class or condition. The Indian boy 

 who associates constantly with his own race, sets 



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