The Indians of North America. gI 
friendship. Take her for thy wife, and be assured of the fidelity of 
her family and her people.” 
Their hospitality is boundless—the kettle is ever hanging on the 
fire. No stranger visits an Indian dwelling but they set food before 
him, and always the best they have. . 
When Sir Walter Raleigh’s fleet visited Albermarle Sound in 
the summer of 1584, they met with the chief Grangavimeo, of 
whom they said: ‘‘ He was very just of his promises; for oft we 
trusted him, and he would come within his day to keep his word. 
He sent us commonly, every day, ducks, conies, hares, and fish, 
sometimes melons, walnuts, cucumbers, peas, and divers roots.” 
* < ‘Their drink is commonly water, boiled with ginger, and 
sometimes with sassafras.” * * ‘*A more kind and loving 
people can not be.” 
When DeSoto visited Florida in 1539, near Ocute, ‘‘ The 
cacique sent him two thousand Indians with a present, to-wit: 
many conies and partridges, bread of maize, hens, and many dogs. 
Two leagues before he came to Chiaha, there met him fifteen Indi- 
ans loaded with maize which the cacique had sent, and they told 
him on his behalf that he waited his coming with twenty barns full 
of it. ; 
After crossing the Mississippi he rested in /acaha forty days, in 
all which trme the two caciques served him with great store of fish, 
mantles and skins, and strove who should do him the greatest 
Service. 
We have now given a few of the thoughts in regard to the origin, 
language and character of the Red Men. 
Changed as they have become from their original nobleness of 
character, we still find many individual instances of their high 
sense of truth and honor. 
Judging from the past, it will not be many years before they will 
become extinct. 
Such characters as they have displayed ought not be suffered to 
pass away into entire oblivion—and we should do all we can to 
obtain portraits and biographies of some of the noble and great 
individuals of the race of Red men, such as— 
Pontiac, Cochise, Billy Bowlegs, 
Tecumseh, Petelasharo, Ross, 
Powhatan, Ridge, Logan, 
Pocahontas, Ross, Sitting Bull, 
