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3 people should have most accurate knowledge of that savage condition. this however is far from being the case. So far indeed that it is safe to say that no more than one in a thousand of the intelligent cultivated people of this country has any true conception of the character, habits, custom, daily life and waves of thought of the aboriginal Indian co-inhabitant of our soil- For over two hundred and sixty years our civilization has been in more or less direct contact with the savage - and the history of that time has been but a bloody accord of collisions between the white and red races. The earliest colonists while weak and separated, the one from the other by