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         As I was going to America to see the Americans I took the

first opportunity which presented itself- that of the voyage to American- for weighing + measuring the specimens of that very com- pound race who happened to be on board the ship in which I was sailing. About half the Passengers forty five in all, were of German extraction; + about half of this half were of the Hebrew persuasion. One young fellow among these latter, who I suppose might be regarded as a representative of the broad Syna- gogue delivered it as his opinion, that the time had come when the ? I/d give up all their peculiar practices which modern knowledge has proved to be founded in misconception + mistakes He instanced their abstinence from Pork, strikeout + from the blood of the animals they used for food, + their method of killing animals. One of these Teutonic Americans. a youth with such a width of shoulders + massiveness of neck + head that strikeout

 no one c/d look upon him without being reminded of a Buffalo

was an Indian trader from the borders of Kansas. His practice was to give the Indians four dollars' worth of goods for such a Buffalo robe as sells in London for fifty or sixty shillings It was his opinion that Indians were vermin which s/d on every opportunity have a dose of lead administered to them. When asked if this was justifiable "Well", he replied, "they are a set of bloodthirsty treacherous skunks; + they must all die out,