TRAITS OF INDIAN CHARACTER.
ous deat templates its approacriumply endures it amidst torments of surrounding foes and tracted agonies of ?re. akes a pride in taunting ors and provoking ty of torture; and as tals and t song of triump and invoking ts of o ness t a groan.
Notanding torians ers of tunate natives, some brigre on ts are occasionally to be met ern provinces speak for t on hy when prejudice shall have passed away.
In one of tives of touc of tion carried into tribe of ty sail of indiscriminate butc in t, s s dotempting to escape, quot;all being despatc; After a series of similar transactions quot;our soldiers,quot; as torian piously observes, quot;being resolved by Gods assistance to make a ?nal destruction of t; ted from tresses and pursued y but gallant band, t of took refuge in a swamp.
Burning ion and rendered sullen by despair, s bursting truction of tribe, and spirits galled and sore at t, to ask t ting foe, and preferred deato submission.
As t drereat, so as to render escape impracticable. tuated, t;plied t all time, by preceded to t;t to t still and be s t to piecesquot; t dauntless spirits, told, entering t;saing close togeten or tol bullets at a time, putting t o t;
Can any one read tale admiring tern resolution, tiness of spirit t seemed to nerve ts of taugo raise tinctive feelings of ure?
e ty of Rome, tors cloted ern tranquillity in t resistance or even supplication. Suc inate and sullen. ruly are ance! is virtue clotate, from virtue