Chap. U. PLAN OF NATIVE RESERVES. tl 
sections, and the hundred sections reserved for the 
natives. To exemplify this, let us take an instance of 
what actually took place when this plan was carried 
into effect. Thus, upon the name of Mr. Duncan 
Dunbar being drawn, a ticket was drawn from another 
wheel, and turned up No. 1, giving him the right of 
the first choice of one among the 1100 town sections, 
and one among the 1100 country sections, as soon as 
they should be surveyed and marked on a map. The 
first native reserve drawn came up No. 7, thus securing 
the seventh best choice of one town and one country 
section, out of the same 2200 sections, to the native 
estate. 
In this way the native reserves were sure to be well 
scattered among the lands occupied and owned by White 
men, and of fair average value. This system held out 
the brightest hopes of success : the value of the lands 
was thus secured, and it was also provided that such 
portions as the natives might select for their residence 
should be interspersed among the residences of ^White 
men, instead of being so isolated as to preserve their 
rude and uncivilized habits. Nothing can be a more 
degrading sight than the exclusively Indian villages of 
Canada. The defective habits and inclinations of the 
savage are preserved, and his existence as an isolated and 
inferior being is encouraged and perpetuated. They are 
visited as curiosities by the White inhabitants and tra- 
vellers, and are preserved in that light, like wild beasts 
in a show, devoid of comfort or improvement. The 
miserable appearance of the native villages which we 
had seen in New Zealand, tended in the strongest 
manner to confirm these views. Crowded together, as 
the natives were, in small, filthy, and unwholesome 
huts, we found that the animal heat, unpurified by 
ventilation, forced them to sleep quite naked, and that 
