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Rh *Frontenac, Count, his connivance with Indian cruelty, 125, 120; his conformity to Indian customs, 295. Frontiers, our, shifting character of, 358-362.
 * Frontiersmen, the, qualities and hardships of, 360-367.
 * Fur-trade, the, 295, 296; Hudson-Bay-Company traffic in, 488; French Northwest Company in, 491; American enterprise in, 492.

, Indian love of, 185.
 * Games, Indian, 187.
 * Gookin, Daniel, overseer of Indian settlements in Mass., 440; his hopeful Report to the Society in England, 457; his hearty co-operation with Eliot, 457, 458; his "Account of the Doings and Sufferings of the Christian Indians" in King Philip's war, 459, — his labors in their behalf, 462, 464. *Gospel, message of, to the Indians, 377.
 * Greeley, Horace, his observation and opinion of the Indian, 623.
 * Guacanagari, native cacique of Hispaniola, his friendly services to Columbus, 43, 47.

, the French, 301. direct trade with China across our continent, 494, 495.
 * Hamilton, Alexander, his advice and action concerning the Indians, 529.
 * "Hammock" (or Hamac), word imported into English from the language of the natives of Hispaniola, 49.
 * Hampton, Indian School at, 628.
 * Harrison, President, his argument with Tecumseh, 529, 530. *Harvard College, its early part in the education of the Indian, 25, 26; Indian students at, 467.
 * Hawkins, Sir John, father of the English Slave-trade, 271.
 * Hearne, Samuel, 382.
 * Hontan, Baron la, 125-127, 162.
 * Horse, the, terrific spectacle of, to the natives, as used in warfare, 47, 66; use of, secured to Cortes the conquest of Mexico, 66; present stock of, an importation to this continent, 202; the use and value of, learned by the Indian from the white man, 202-204; a means, with other domestic animals, of civilization to the Indian, 625.
 * Hudson Bay Company, the, its origin, 483; a gigantic monopoly, not seeking colonization, but gain, 484, 486; literature of, 485, 491; number of its employes, 485; opinion of it of its own servants and agents, 487; its enormous profits, 488; its employment of half-breeds, 488; furnishes great quantities of "fire-water" to the Indians, 489, 490; its feuds with French hunters and traders, 491; its relations to Selkirk's lied River Settlement, 493; its efforts to open
 * Huguenots, the, in America, 270; fortunes of their colony in Florida, 271-273.
 * "Hurricane," word imported into English from the language of the natives of Hispaniola, 49.


 * Indian, origin of the name. See Aborigines.
 * Indian College, the, name of the first brick building at Harvard, 25, 26.
 * Indian doctors, the, 129.
 * Indian names of places, desirableness of their being recalled, 160, 161.
 * "Indian Question," the, difficulties of, 35-38, 553; helps and facilities reached for dealing wisely with it, 554-556; the present actual situation of, 557, 558.
 * Indies, the, a western passage to, the dream of Columbus, 2, 3, — and of Europeans generally, 9, 10.
 * Intelligence, average of, among men generally rated too high, 91; remark of Dr. Franklin quoted, 91.
 * Isabella, of Castile, pleads for kind treatment of the Indians, 22; her