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that it revolved round the sun. ‘The Camanche indignantly 
asked if he took him for an idiot, that any man could see that 
the earth was perfectly level by only looking off, over the 
prairie, and moreover his grandfather had been to the west end 
of it, where the sun went down behind a wall. The Delaware 
continned to describe to him other things he had seen among 
the whites, all of which the Camanche attributed to some 
necromancy or spell put upon him by them, and only deigned 
to Bist =~ — “ Hush, ' fool.” 
to icone upon one of them the benefits that would result to 
them if they would cease their wandering life, and learn to 
read, write and cultivate the soil; that the whites had taught 
his people and they had become a happy people. The 
Camanche replied that he would willingly agree to be taught, 
but that the whites were such great rascals he could not trust 
them, nor consent to be etc by ne that if the Choctaws 
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out men to teach them, they would 
excuse those wishing to learn from war and hunting, but that 
he must think there were very few, if any, honest white men ; 
showing that he entertained bitter hostility towards us. 
The Camanche men are of middle stature, light eopper- 
eolored complexions, and intelligent countenances, but the 
women are short, crooked-legged, and far from good-looking. 
The men are grossly licentious, treating female captives in a 
most eruel and barbarous manner; but they enforce rigid 
chastity upon their women, every dereliction from which is pun- 
