TRAVELS THROUGH UPPER CANADA ! 
firm conduct in war, or the like, they will 
listen to you with the greatest pleasure, and 
readily join in praises of the hero, 
The Indians appear, on the first view, to be 
of a very cold and phlegmatic disposition, and 
you must know them for some time before you 
can be persuaded to the contrary. If you shew 
them any artificial production which pleases 
them, they simply tell you, with seeming in¬ 
difference, ff that it is pretty;” "that they like 
" to look at it;” " that it is a clever inven- 
■ c tion:” nor do they testify their satisfaction 
and pleasure by emotions seemingly much 
warmer in their nature, on beholding any new 
or surprising spectacle, oronhearing any happy 
piece of intelligence. The performances at the 
amphitheatre at Philadelphia, though unques¬ 
tionably highly interesting to fherm never drew 
forth from them, I observed, more thap a 
smile or gentle laugh, followed by a remark 
in a low voice tp their friend sitting next to 
them. With equal indifference do they be¬ 
hold any thing terrible, or listen to the accounts 
of any dreadful catastrophe that has befallen 
their families or their nation. This apathy, 
bow r ever, is only assumed, and certainly does 
not proceed from a real want of feeling; no, 
people on earth are more alive to the calls of 
friendship ; no people have a greater affection 
for their offspring in their tender years; i\q 
