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material differences there may be in the dialects, 
customs, or weapons of the different tribes, by refer- 
ring them to the effect of local circumstances, the 
length of time that may have elapsed since separa- 
tion, or to the isolated position in which they may 
have been placed, with regard to that division of the 
parent tribe from which they had seceded. 
At present our information respecting the cus- 
toms, habits, weapons and dialects of the various 
tribes is too limited and too scattered to enable us to 
trace with accuracy the division to which each may 
have originally belonged, or the precise route by 
which it had arrived at its present location ; but I feel 
quite confident that this may be done with tolerable 
certainty, when the particulars I have referred to 
shall be more abundantly and correctly recorded. 
It is at least a subject of much interest, and one 
that is well worthy the attention of the traveller or 
the philanthropist. No one individual can hope 
personally to collect the whole material required; 
but if each recorded with fidelity the facts connected 
with those tribes, with whom he personally came in 
contact, a mass of evidence would soon be brought 
together that would more than suffice for the pur- 
pose required. 
