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98.

The countenance and whole deportment of this
Indian most forcibly portrayed a living picture
of man in his natural state when smarting under
the wounded feelings of personal insult or injury.
Then it is he considers that he has a right to do what
ever passion dictates or caprice suggests, be it good,
or be it evil. At such a moment he is neither to be
upbraided or coerced which only tends to wet his
determination the more, and to add fuel to the
burning fire. The storm alone is to be subdued by
tender expressions; kind promises and offers of gifts
and gewgaws.

Well you come put me prison spose? ugh?
no! no! me no come put you prison - me like poor
Indian too much to put him prison, me come see him
hunt muskrat, see him squaws, see him little
squaws, give poor Indian money buy tobacco, ugh?
spose him tell me what make him so much angry,
me Government Officer, you know? ugh?

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Indian Indigenous Hunter.