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Our
illustration on page 324 shows the manner in which the population of
an Indian village make a journey from one place of settlement to
another, taking their habitations with them. The long poles on which
the tent-skins were stretched now serve as a rude kind of sledge or
drag, for the conveyance of such household goods as make up the
scanty furniture of an Indian lodge. Such a procession makes a very
picturesque spectacle, moving helter-skelter over the plains,
warriors, squaws, young ones, dogs, and ponies, all mingled
together. Perhaps no sight is more grateful to the Western settler
than that of these aborigines obeying the general law of
"Westward ho!" The further and quicker they go the better,
in the estimation of the white interlopers, until they meet the tide
of white civilization advancing Eastward from the Western coast,
when the northernmost Territories will be the only place of refuge
for such as refuse to die or become civilized. |
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