possible—than with the children of civilization. But 7*™e* 
one can note a vast range from the savage often 
wholly naked, to the complete Indian dandy, who, 
with his face painted with cinnabar, his hair decked 
with feathers, and his body adorned with beads and 
brass wire, will gaze for hours in a broken bit of mir- 
ror, admiring the masterpiece of all creation. 
- What, then, are the special characteristics of the 
Indians? Physically they consist, in addition to the 
racial marks above given, of admirable strength, skill 
and endurance, together with keenness of senses in 
highest development. An Indian sees his enemy be- 
fore the white man discovers him with his spy glass. 
His ear upon the ground, he interprets suspicious 
sounds at great distances. His keen sense of smell 
scents smoke and traces of the enemy, before the 
white man has any suspicion thereof. Among the 
characteristics of the man within this body we are 
first struck by the pride with which he looks down 
upon his surroundings, especially upon the pale face. 
“The proudest thing in the world is an Indian,” aa 
old mountaineer once said to me; and whoever has 
seen a free Indian going through the streets of a pop- 
ulous city, which he is perhaps seeing for the first 
time, with firm, self-reliant step and military bearing, 
gazing straight ahead and seemingly indifferent to 
all around him, will admit that the opinion just 
quoted is not without foundation. This pride seems 
to me nothing more than a consciousness of his self- 
reliant independence. The Indian, born and nurtured 
