This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1784 edition. Excerpt: ...in which he lives with some young squaw, whom he either courts to his embraces, or receives from her parents as his wife and servant, during the time he may stay among them. In such cases she is always very faithful and true, and if Ihe should prove pregnant, the child is railed by the nation: but if ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1784 edition. Excerpt: ...in which he lives with some young squaw, whom he either courts to his embraces, or receives from her parents as his wife and servant, during the time he may stay among them. In such cases she is always very faithful and true, and if Ihe should prove pregnant, the child is railed by the nation: but if me be the caughter of one of their chiefs, and the father of the infant be inclined to fix his residence a--mong them, he is presented with a large tract: of land, several miles square, in trust for the child; which, as well as himself, is then formally adopted and received into the nation. CHAP, CHAP. XXV. Catawha's vast Property TJxir Manufaflurcs. Their THE Catawbas are indeed a poor, inoffensive, insignificant people, enveloped in filth and nastiness of person, for no Indian has any idea of cleanness. But they possess an extensive and most valuable body of rich, fertile land, containing more than one hundred and fifty thousand acres, which they hold in absolute property and fee simple inheritance. Should their depopulation continue as rapidly as it has been hitherto, in a very few years this enormous, immense estate will center in a single family. However, this estate, vast and immense as it is, is but a poor compensation for the loss of a whole province; for this nation formerly possessed, and were the actual proprietors of the greatest part of North Carolina, Nojiiness. I am I am told that there can be no certain determined judgment formed of the manners an J appearance of the native, uncivilized, wild, western Indians, from these, who seem indeed, in a great measure, to have lost that martial independent spirit, for which that whole race of mankind have been ever distinguished, and to be sinking fast into degeneracy and a state...
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