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48 left us little of profit, he certainly left us the memory of countless, immemorial hatreds which perhaps are not equaled in the annals of human history. Nothing points more strikingly to the low plane of civilization which he occupied. The animosity of a Roman for a Carthaginian was nothing beside the hatred of an Iroquois for an Algonquin, a Shawanese for a Catawba, a Seneca for a Wyandot. These hatreds grew with the years and even centuries; they were so bitter that children were trained to undergo cruel torture at home without uttering complaint, lest when tortured by their foes they should some time give way to lamentation and disgrace their tribe.

"On the war path" is a common expression, but a little study of this subject would convince one that when those words are written, the article "the" should be italicized for emphasis—"on the war path." Not every Indian trail was a war path; indeed the number, compared with the whole number of trails, was exceedingly small. Looking at the Central West, for example, in the days of Indian régime,