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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXVI THE INDIAN AS AN ALL-AROUND MAN HAVING now a little leisure, and no particular tribes before my eye, I will take a brief survey of the Indian, and write of the things I have s... More

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXVI THE INDIAN AS AN ALL-AROUND MAN HAVING now a little leisure, and no particular tribes before my eye, I will take a brief survey of the Indian, and write of the things I have seen but have yet only told in part. I have had toils, difficulties, and dangers to encounter in visiting these wild people, yet I have had my pleasures as I went along in shaking the friendly hands that never knew the contaminating touch of money or the withering embrace of pockets. I have shared the comforts of their hospitable wigwams and have always been preserved unharmed in their country. If I have spoken or am to speak of them with a seeming bias, you will know what allowance to make for me, who am standing as the champion of a people who have treated me kindly, of whom I feel bound to speak well, and who have no means of speaking of themselves. Of the general appearance of the Indians it may be said that their average in height is about equal to that of their fellow-men in the civilized world. In girth they are less, lighter in limb, and almost free from useless flesh. Their bones are lighter, their skulls are thinner, and their muscles, except in the legs and feet are less hard than those of the white men. Their continual and violent exercise on foot and horseback gives them great strength of leg, and swells the muscles as conspicuously as those in the shoulders and arms of our laboring men. Although the Indians are narrow in the shoulder and less powerful with their arms, yet it does not always happen that these are as effeminate as they look or so inferior in strength as the smooth and rounded surface seems to indicate. The Indian who exercises his limbs for the most of his life, denuded and exposed to the air, gets over his muscles a thicker and more compact ...

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