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not," said the old man to him calmly, " thou shouldst not be too furious;-thou wilt spoil thy revenge, and not have time to learn to die like a man." Many such anecdotes are related of their last moments. Sometimes savage ingenuity protracts these scenes of torture during several days. But, whether continued for a longer or a shorter period, they are equally incapable of wearing out the patience, or subduing the haughty spirit of a noted chief. He insults his persecutors-he sings his mournful song, till nature being at length entirely exhausted, he sinks down without a groan, apparently more satisfied at having braved his enemies, than afflicted at the loss of life. Their revenge and hatred prompt them to make him express some complaint, if possible, under the anguish of his sufferings. He places his honor in being superior to them. They strive to subdue his pride, he derives a pleasure from making them feel his contempt. Their vengeance would enjoy a triumph if they could reduce a warrior of a rival nation to utter a groan. he glories in shewing them that a warrior of his nation can never be subdued by pain.-Some-times it happens that a prisoner of the lower class is overcome by the extremity of his sufferings, and trembles at death surrounded by so many terrors. This never raises the compassion, but always the contempt of these hardy savages; and some haughty and furious chief dispatches him at a blow, as unworthy of being treated like a man.

From the preceeding details of the military character and habits of the American savage several important enquiries arise the solution of which will tend to throw light on the philosophy and human nature, and particularly to obviate those objections which have been made by some respectable writers to the identity of species in them, and in the polished Europeans.--1. To what principle are we to ascribe that concealed mode of fighting, and those approaches made by stealth to the object of their attack which, from their opposition to the customs of all civilized nations, and the manner in which true bravery is expressed among them, has produced against the American the charge of extreme and unmanly pusillanimity? Is this an indication of a total destitution of courage? or is it only a different mode of exerting a principle which conspicuously belongs to human nature in every region of the globe? -- 2. How
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