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Rh is a fine appreciation here of the intimate relation of dependence and a link in destiny, at least as concerns vast numbers of the old hunting tribes and the beast which furnished them pastime and subsistence.

I have quoted these evidently overdrawn pictures of Catlin while fully aware of his deficiencies as an observer, and of his unrestrained enthusiasm in description. His richness of fancy was offset by lack of judgment. He writes more like a child than a well-balanced man.

Major J. S. Campion, in his “Life on the Frontier,” shows himself a most intelligent and discriminating observer of Indian life and character, of which he had large experience. He says: —