NORTH



AMERICAN IND[ANS.



the opinion that thev were not oriainally from the same
country, and that if the ancient speech taught him any
thing on that subject, he would do me a great pleasure
to inform ine of it. At these words he leaned his head
on his two hands with which he covered his eyes, and
having retained in that posture for a quarter of an hour,
as if to recollect himnself, he answered to the following ef-
fect:



  "a ' Before we came to this
the sun, (pointing with his
which I understood he mea
country where the earth is
suns had their abode, and <
for a longr time aomainst hosi
some of our villages in the



us fro mo 1
along the f
but as our
very wick
lived near
into the cc
on the east
sun upon



ordered
still defe
try, to
and to
  " ' A 4



island we livedyonder under
finiger nearly south-west by



nt Mexico,) we lived in
always pleasant ; the



Dur
rile s
plair



the mountains. Om
rreat water where thi
enemies were beco



ed, our sm
this river,
)untry thro
; side being
the returi



all hi
nded
remc
prese
great



L



.3



as
to
CY
fo



[ (



subj ects *



themseive
Ive into thi
rve the ete
part of ou



sent so
examine
ih whi h
und exti
)f those
who live
s aoainst
.s land,
rnal fire,
r nation



nation
I



rc



maintained



1



trangers, wno conqu
is, but never could
r nation extended
s larae river lose;> it
me very numerous
mie of our subjects
3 whether we could i
it flowed. The cot



I


I5



ernely pleasant,
who had exa
Zd in the plains,
the enemies oft]
here, to build I



a



d fine
9 our
itself
tered
force
itself
self;
and
who
retire
intry



the great
mined it,
and who
her coun-
i temple,



ecordincly settled here,



where they lived in I
generations ; thee great
with him, never thouS



continue wahere
country, which
their enemies w
tile ambition of ,
himself from a s
the viilaaes, and
those discords a



they
was v
ho he
one of
tate o
to tre



peace and abundance for several
sun and those who had remained
tht of joining us, being tempted to
were by the pleasantness of the
-ery warm, and by the weakness of
d fallen into civil dissensions by
f their chiefs who wanted to raise
f equality with the other chiefs of
at all hispeople as slaves. During



imong our enemies, some ot them even



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