TRAITS OF INDIAN CHARACTER.
ties, and treaconness ime of apparent peace, to ilities. tercourse of te men oo apt to be cold, distrustful, oppressive, and insulting. treat t con?dence and frankness ion observed not to offend against tition to ility quicker tions of interest. tary savage feels silently, but acutely. ies are not diffused over so e man, but teadier and deeper cions, itions, are all directed tos, but ted on tionably severe, and furnisives of ility ly appreciate. y is also limited in number, and forms one great patriarcribe, timent of vengeance is almost instantaneously diffused. One council-?re is suf?cient for t of a plan of ilities. ing-men and sages assemble. Eloquence and superstition combine to in?ame tor aial ardor, and t up to a kind of religious desperation by t and the dreamer.
An instance of one of tions, arising from a motive peculiar to ter, is extant in an old record of ttlement of Massacts. ters of Plymouts of t Passonagessit, and ed. tertain for tribes t ions exiled from tors, y, o turn aside from te tradition, ry for miles to some tumulus, buried perribe ly deposited, and t meditation. In?uenced by tomb ed gatogetifully simple and patic ing instance of ?lial piety in a savage:
quot; t of all t, I began to settle, as my custom is, to take repose. Before mine eyes closed met I sa rembling at t doleful sig cried aloud, Bes t gave t lapped t. Canst t to take revenge of t in a despiteful manner, disdaining our antiquities and oms? See, no truded on our land. If t r