"Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the
perfection of civility: they think the same of theirs. Perhaps, if we would examine
the manners of different nations with impartiality, we should find no people so rude as
to be without any rules of politeness; nor any so polite as not to have some remains of
rudeness."-Dr. Franklin's Essay on the North American Savages.

BY JOHN HALKETT, Esq.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH;

AND HURST, ROBINSON, AND CO. 90, CHEAPSIDE, AND 8, PALL MALL.

1825.

PAGE

CHAPTER VI.

KINDNESS OF THE INDIANS TO THE EARLY COLONISTS IN NEW

ENGLAND-IMPRUDENT CONDUCT OF THE ENGLISH-HOSTILI-

TIES IN WHICH THE SETTLERS WERE ENGAGED-WAR WITH

THE PEQUOTS..

120

CHAPTER VII.

WAR WITH PHILIP THE CELEBRATED CHIEF OF THE ROKANO-

KETS DESTRUCTION OF THE NARRAGANSETS-HOSTILITIES

WITH THE EASTERN INDIANS

.........

141

CHAPTER VIII.

BANEFUL EFFECTS ARISING FROM THE PRACTICE OF SUPPLYING

THE INDIANS WITH SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS

CHAPTER IX.

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED

CHAPTER X.

164 -

187

CONDUCT OF THE FRENCH IN THEIR ENDEAVOURS TO CONVERT

THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS TO CHRISTIANITY

............

206

CHAPTER XI.

ATTEMPTS OF THE ENGLISH, PRIOR TO THE REVOLUTIONARY

WAR IN NORTH AMERICA, TO CONVERT THE INDIANS.-SIMILAR

MEASURES SUBSEQUENT TO THAT PERIOD-ATTEMPTS OF A

LIKE NATURE BY THE AMERICANS OF THE UNITED STATES..

239

CHAPTER XII.

RITE OF BAPTISM PROMISCUOUSLY ADMINISTERED TO THE

INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA BY THE EARLY FRENCH MIS-

SIONARIES-QUESTION RESPECTING IT SUBMITTED TO THE

DOCTORS OF THE SORBONNE - SENTIMENTS OF NATURAL

RELIGION ENTERTAINED BY THE INDIANS-OBSTRUCTION TO

THEIR CONVERSION ARISING FROM THE RELIGIOUS DIFFER-

ENCES AND DISPUTES AMONG THE EUROPEANS

...............

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CHAPTER XIII.

INJUDICIOUS CONDUCT OF THE PROTESTANT SETTLEMENTS IN

NORTH AMERICA WITH REGARD TO THEIR CONVERTED IN-

DIANS-GENERAL RELUCTANCE OF THE INDIANS TO RECEIVE

THE CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES

295

CHAPTER XIV.

DIFFICULTY OF RECONCILING THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS

TO EUROPEAN HABITS AND EDUCATION-UNFOUNDED ASSER-

TIONS OF SOME WRITERS AS TO THE ALLEGED NATURAL

INCAPACITY OF THE INDIANS WITH REFERENCE TO THE

ATTEMPTS MADE TO CIVILIZE THEM

316

GENERAL REMARKS ON THE ATTEMPTS MADE TO CONVERT

THE INDIANS, AND ON THE CAUSES OF FAILURE-OBSTACLES

ARISING FROM THE INFLUENCE OF THE NATIVE JUGGLERS-

BENEFITS WHICH WOULD FOLLOW FROM THE AID OF MEDICAL

SKILL EXTENDED TO THE INDIAN NATIONS INJUDICIOUS

VIEWS, AND INTOLERANT SPIRIT, TOO OFTEN ENTERTAINED

BY SOME OF THE MISSIONARIES-CONCLUSION

367