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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Adventures of John Tanner?Habits of the American Indians ? Their sufferings from famine, and from the absence among them of the principle of division of labour ? Evils of irregular labour ? Respect to property ? Their present improved condition ? Hudson's Bay Indians. In the year 1828 there came to New York a white man named John Tanner, who had been thirty years a captive amongst the Indians in the interior of North America. He was carried off by a band of these people when he was a little boy, from a settlement on the Ohio river, which was occupied by his father, who was a clergyman. The boy was brought np in all the rude habits of the Indians, and became inured to the abiding miseries and uncertain pleasures of their wandering life. He grew in time to be a most skilful huntsman, and carried on large dealings with the agents of the Hudson's Bay Company, in the skins of beavers and other animals which he and his associates had shot or entrapped. The history of this man was altogether so curious, that he was induced to furnish the materials for a complete narrative of his adventures; and, accordingly, a book, fully descriptive of them, was prepared for the press by Dr. Edwin James, and printed at New York, in 1830. It is of course not within the intent of our little work to furnish any regular abridgment of John Tanner's story; but it is our wish to direct attention to some few particulars, which appear to us strikingly to illustrate some of the positions which we desire to enforce, by thus exhibiting their practical operation. The country in which this man lived so many years is that immense territory belonging to the United States, which at that period was covered by boundless forests which the progress of civilization had not then cleared away. In this ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217229715 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217229719 |
| Weight | 0.90 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.62 In |
| List Price | $21.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 276 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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