herited from their ancestors were lost. They became in their own estimation a degraded, dependent race. 'The Govermment, avail ing itseif of their weakness and want of energy, succeeded by bribes and mcnaces in obtaining the best portions of their coun try, and eventually in driving them from the land of their birth to a distant home in an unknown region
"This distressing chapter of aboriginal history began at the trcaty of Greenville, in 1795, and terminated in less than fifty years. The writer of thesc notes witmessed its commencement, progress, and close."-BURNET's Notes on North-west Territory.
NES PERCES AND FLAT-1EADS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
They were friendly in their dispositions, and onest to the most scrupulous degree in their intercourse with the white men Simply to eall these people religious would convey but a faint iden of the deep hue of piety and devotion which pervades the wholc of their conduct. Their honesty is immaculate; and their purity of purpase and their observance of the rites of their relig ion are most uniform and remarkable. They are certainly inore like a nation of saints than a horde of suvages."-CAPTAEN BONNE VILIE's Narrative, recised by W. IRVING
"I fearlessly assert to the world, and I defy contradiction, that the Norti American Indian is evcrywhere in his natiYe state a highly noral and religious being, endowed y his Maker with an intuitive knowledge of some great Author of lis being and the universe-in dread of whose displeasure he constantly livcs wit the apprehension before him of a future state, when he expects to be rewarded or punished according to the merits he has gained or forfeited in this world
"I nover saw any other people who specnd so much of their lives in humbling themselves before and worsipping the Great Spirit as these tribes do, nor any whom I would not as soon sus pect of insinccrity and hypoerisy
Scif-denial and sclf-torture, and almost selfimmolation, are continual modes of apper nance and forgivencss.
To each other I have found these people kind and honorablc, and endowed witlh every feeling of parental, filial, and conjugal affection that is met with in more enlightened communities." CATLIN's North American Indians.
to the Great Spirit for his counte Mr. Catlin spent eight years among the Indians more than forty years ago. IIe travelled among the wildest of then, lived 16*