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The Pinta Nina and Santa Maria Sailed out of Palos one day, Navigated by the Pinzons and HE Who discovered the land of the free. ,

HE INDIANS of New York and a few other states have been made fa- mous by James Fenimore Cooper. His "Deerslayer," "The Prairie," "The Pathfinder," and the "Last of the E^ Mohicans" have become universal lit- erature: for not only in the United States and Canada are they read, but they have been translated into many languages, and in all probabihty centuries hence they wlU be perused by students of American history to obtain an insight into the pecuUar characteristics of the "'Ked Men" of North America, a type of humanity nowhere to be found in any other quarter of the globe. Not only are they of an original make physi- cally, but particularly mentally, for those who know the Indians declare "the way of the Indian is mys- terious. ' He has the characteristics of the hyena, which, when viewed in the zoological gardens and