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of the Indian children, a crowd of whom collected around him to watch it as it soared higher & higher into the pure ether - The half-grown boys & the dogs of the Indian village are the greatest pests it has been my fortune to meet in this tour. Too old to attract by the grace & interest of childhood, they have its inquisitiveness, which uncurbed by the sense of propriety of the adult becomes independence - They have not pride enough to cultivate personal appearance & the cleanliness which they assume with manhood is absent -- very dirty, very ugly & very mischievous. In every village there are a race of mongrel curs, half terrier half wolf, who annoy ever passer by with a volley of barks, & endanger his heels, with