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America - 1 also with the Winnepegs ; 2 with Apaches, who re- 

 covered again a portion of their country from the Mexicans ; 8 

 and in a still greater degree with the Sauks, who used to 

 adopt their prisoners in their tribes. 4 After the decima- 

 tion of the population in earlier periods in Greenland by 

 destructive epidemics, it now increases at the rate of one per 

 cent, in North Greenland, and from two to three per cent, in 

 South Greenland. 5 The Winnebagoes, or Winnepegs, have 

 from the year 1812 to 1820 increased from 3,500 to 5,800 souls. 

 As with the Menomonies so with them, the females outnumber 

 the males by one-third, and the number of children is in both 

 tribes proportionately much more considerable than among the 

 Indian tribes who have intermixed with the whites. The 

 Cherokees likewise considerably increased in number before 

 they were compelled to leave the country. 6 According to Ols- 

 hausen, 7 who opines that, the number of Algonquins has rather 

 increased since the arrival of the whites, the number of Chero- 

 kees is said to have grown, since 1760, from 12,000 to 30,000, 

 and that of the Choctaws from 16,000 in 1772, to 25,000. 

 However oppressed the natives of Guatemala 8 are by the 

 Spaniards, they increase so rapidly, that the latter begin to 

 fear them. Wells 9 observes, that in recent times the Blacks 

 and Mulattoes in Honduras zealously watch and resist the im- 

 migration of white Americans, as they hope shortly to be the 

 sole masters of the country ; but Squier 10 says, ' ' All observers 

 agree that the whites decrease in Central America, not merely 

 relatively, but absolutely, whilst the pure Indians increase 

 rapidly, and the cross-breds, the Ladinos, gradually approach 

 the Indian type." Tschudi 11 expressly contradicts the assertion 

 of Weigl and Martius, that the natives began to decay on 



1 Simpson, " Narr. of a journey round the world," i, p. 87, 1847. 



2 Schoolcraft, loc. cit., ii, p. 535. 



3 Kendall, " Narr. of an exped. across the prairies," ii, p. 67, 1845. 



4 Keating, i, p. 225. 



5 V. Etzel, " Greenland/' p. 376, 1860. 



6 Morse, " Report on Ind. affairs/' append., pp. 48, 59, 375, 152. 



7 " Dass Mississipi Thai.," i, p. 300, 1853. 



8 Gage, " Voy. dans la nouv. Espagne/' ii, p. 68, Amst. 1771. 



9 " Explor. and adv. in Honduras," p. 197, 1857. 



10 " Die staaten von Central Am.," German by Andree, p. 28, 1856. 

 Chap, ii, p. 369. 



