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ORIGIN OF THE



within me, I felt compassion for your enemy. Innocence
(helpless women and children) had no part in your
quarrels; therefore I distinguished-I spared, I took
some liveflesh, which, while I was bringing to you, I
spied one of your large canoes, on which I put it for you.
In a fiew days you will recover this flesh, and find that
the skin is of the same color with your own. Father,
I hope you will not destroy what I have saved. You,
father, have the means. of preserving that which with
me would perish for want. The warrior is poor, and
his cabin is always empty; but your house, father, is
always full."



THE ANSWER OF LITTLE TURTLE THE CHIEF OF
          THE MIAMIS TO M. VOLNEY.



  The answer of Little r
to M. Volney who asked
living among the whites,
fortable in Philadelphia,
Wabash.
  "c Taking all things,")
the advantage over us;



do not talk your
myself heard.
every person ii
one makes shoe
every one lives
all these things 4
or an arrow, ca
none of these is



Turtle the chief of the Miamis
him what prevented him from
, and if he were not more com-
than upon the banks of the

he said, "together, you have
but here 1 am deaf and dumb, I



language; I can neither hear, nor make
When I walk through the streets, I see
i his shop employed about something:
es, another hats, a third sells cloth, and
by his labor. I say to myself, which of
can you do; not one. I can make a bow
tch fish, kill game, and go to war; but
of any use here. To learn what is done



here would require a long time, "old age comes on."
cc I should be a piece of furniture useless to my nation,
useless to the whites, useless to myself. I must return
to my own country."