go Cincinnati Society of Natural Fitstory. 
purpose, and their observance of rites of religion, are most uni- 
form and remarkable. ‘They certainly are more like a nation of 
saints than a horde of savages.” 
The great Columbus wrote back to the royal Ferdinand and 
Isabella, as follows: ‘‘ I swear to your Majesties that there is not 
a better people in the world than these; more affectionate, more 
affable and mild. They love their neighbors as themselves, and 
always speak smilingly.”’ 
Wm. Penn, the Quaker, who came over in 1682, treated the 
Indians with honesty and justice. He said he believed that Indi- 
ans had souls. He appointed juries to try Indian offenders, to 
consist of six white men and six Indians. He had no troops and 
no forts. Penn made a treaty with the Indians at Kensington, 
now within the limits of Philadelphia. This treaty ‘‘ was never 
sworn to, and never broken’’—a monument marks the spot. He 
‘lived with the Indians in peace for sixty years, and not a drop of 
Quaker blood was ever shed by the Indians. 
The Swedes and Fins settled in Delaware in 1631, and they had 
no trouble with the Indians. There was no trouble in New 
Jersey. 
The French came, and in 1673 Marquette and Jolliet and Hen- 
nepin explored the Mississippi. 
The brave cavalier LaSalle (1631) with twenty-three French- 
men and thirty-one Indians, sailed down the Illinois and 
on to the mouth of the Mississippi. He was welcomed and 
feasted by the Indians of the Arkansas, whom he describes as 
‘‘a lively, civil, generous people,”’ with a tendency toward civili- 
zation, having domestic fowls wandering among their rude cabins 
of bark. He at last arrives in sight of the great Gulf of Mexico, 
and takes possession of Louisiana in 'the name of Louis XIV. 
** * The Indians do not molest these expeditions, and submit 
peacefully to be despoiled of their possessions. 
We can all recall the generous act of Pocahontas, a girl of thir- 
teen summers, in throwing herself at the feet of her father, Pow- 
hatan, and saving the life of John Smith, who lay on the ground 
bound hand and foot and ready to be executed with the war club. 
Shortly after the conquest of Mexico, Vasco Nunez invades the 
regions near Darm aud captures the chief, who reproaches him 
with ingratitude, and yet gives him his daughter, saying : 
‘Behold my daughter. I give her to thee as a pledge of my 
