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analogies already selected, such has been found to be 
the case.* — 
The Apaches with which we had intercourse must 
rank below the Indian tribes east of the Rocky Moun- 
tains, dwelling on the tributaries of the Mississippi 
and Missouri Rivers. They are without that dignified 
bearing, and those noble traits of character, which 
characterize the latter; and as they perform no labor, 
* In an essay read before the American Ethnological Society by 
my friend, Professor Wm. W. Turner, he has shown that a close ana- 
' logy exists between the languages of the Apaches and the Athapascans, 
a tribe on the confines of the Polar Sea. 
