Ill 



THE PAMPAS INDIANS. 



When one compares the relative size of America 

 with the rest of the world, it is singular to reflect on 

 the history of those fellow-creatures who are the 

 aborigines of the land ; and after viewing the wealth ^ 

 and beauty of so interesting a country, it is painful 

 to consider what the sufferings of the Indians have 

 been, and still may be. Whatever may be their 

 physical or moral character, whether more or less 

 puny in body or in mind than the inhabitants of 

 the old world, still they are the human beings 

 placed there by the Almighty ; the country be- 

 longed to them, and they are therefore entitled to 

 the regard of every man who has religion enough to 

 believe that God has made nothing in vain, or 

 whose mind is just enough to respect the persons 

 and the rights of his fellow-creatures. 



A fair description of the Indians I believe does 

 not exist. The Spaniards, on the discovery of the 

 country, exterminated a large proportion of this 



