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those who subsist mostly on vegetables; but the latter can endure hardships, and bear up under fatigue, much longer than the former. So well assured are they of this fact, that eaters of animal food are excluded from the list of ball-players.

Many of the subjects on whom the foraging observations were founded, are sunk in the lowest depths of ignorance, superstition and vice; and it can hardly be conceived, that a human being could be brought to a smaller degree above the brute creation. But there are many, who, though they are ignorant as respects the arts of civilization, exhibit much native dignity;-- high-minded, honorable, candid, sincere, and hospitable, without the least spark of pusillanimity. And to the honor of the nation, the majority are, peaceable, industrious, and as well versed in husbandry, and other useful arts, as a majority of the whites by whom they are surrounded. There are also many individuals who would grace the most refined society. The clouds of heathenish darkness, and low superstition, which overshadow many other Indian tribes, are rapidly passing away from the Cherokees, and considerable numbers are living under the benign influence