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Far West in the middle ot the nineteenth century. liiit anions 

 these, and in terms of greatest intimacy with them, we meet also 

 the romantic Indians of Cooper and of Chateaubriand. Th(i 

 Indian maid Owaja in 'An der Indianergreuze' (1859) ; Utho and 

 his bride Zateka in 'Der Sprung vom Niagarafalle' (1864) ; 

 Kionata in 'Leonide, ' one of the novelettes in 'Aus Armand's Fron- 

 tierleben (1867) ; and the Indian brave Paneo in 'Ein Wilder,' a 

 novelette in the same work, are all characters whicli strongly 

 suggest to the reader the Cooperian Indian. They were appar- 

 ently introduced for the sake of the romantic story. The major- 

 ity of Strubberg's Indians, it must be said, are of genuine flesh 

 and blood. We may say that Strubberg aimed at giving a truth- 

 ful portrayal of the Indian even to the extent of sacrificing good 

 taste. Just as the Indians were "varmint" to Natty Bumpo, they 

 were also, as a class, in Strubberg's estimation, only "Lumpe. " 



Since the appearance of Cooper's 'Last of the Mohicans,' the 

 melancholy idea of the death of the last member of a dying race 

 has been a favorite subject for treatment. This idea, is also evident 

 in Strubberg's 'Ralph Norwood' (1860), whose theme, not unlike 

 tbat of Sealsfield's 'Der Legitime und die Republikaner, ' is the 

 struggle of the Seminoles in the South against the Whites, and 

 the final removal of the remnant of that once mighty race to the 

 West, Tallihadjo, the chief, speaking of the brewing difficul- 

 ties with the Whites, says: "Wenn die Zeit aber gekommen sein 

 wird wo das kleine Stiick Land, welches Euch die AVeissen noch 

 gelassen, Euch nicht mehr ernahren kann, wenn Eure Heerdei] 

 verklimmern und Ihr zu sterben bereit seid, dann ruft Tallihadjo, 

 damit er Euch zur Schlacht f iihre ; deu ji glauht mir, es ivird der 

 letzte Kampf des letzten Indianers in Florida iverden'' (Vol. 1, 

 p. 114). Later the chief says: "Vereinigt hatte unser Yolk die 

 weisse Brut in Florida erdrlickt . . . uneinig aber, wie wir 

 sind, wird ein Stamm nach dem andern fallen, his das Ilcrz des 

 letzten Seminolen aufgehort hat zu sehlagen" (Vol. Ill, p. 219). 

 In the same novel Eleanor, her husband, Frank Arnold, and her 

 father, Forney, visit Trenton Falls in New York, and there meet a 

 solitary Indian, of whom we read: "Der Flihrer theilte ihnen mit, 

 dass dieser Mann der letzte HauptUng des noch vor nicht vielen 

 Jahren so machtigen Yolks der Oneidas sei. . . (Vol. IV, 

 p. 132). ^ • 



'Carl Scharnhort, Abenteuer eines deutschen Knaben in 

 Amerika' (1863), is an interesting story of German emigration to 

 America. The German lad, Carl Scharnhort, develops into a 



