TRAITS

OF

INDIAN CHARACTER.

VOL. I.-A

VOL. I.

ASTOR

OF

LIBRARY

INDIAN CHARACTER;

AS GENERALLY APPLICABLE TO THE ABORIGINES
OF NORTH AMERICA.

DRAWN FROM VARIOUS SOURCES;-PARTLY FROM PERSONAL OBSER-
VATION OF THE WRITER.

MEMBER OF SEVERAL LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETIES IN
EUROPE AND AMERICA.

"The Red Men are melting like snow before the sun, (to borrow the express-
ive metaphor of one of their Chiefs); and we should be anxious, before it is
too late, to copy the evanescent features of their character, and perpetuate
them on the page of History."-New York Hist. Soc.

IN TWO VOLS.-VOL. I

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KEY & BIDDLE, 23 MINOR STREET.

Checked
May 1913

1836.