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...downward grimace, the necessitated wrinkles of which could be stretched by malevolence to a semblance of haughty dis- gust; reminding us, through our ... ...f the un- folding of that secret was brilliant to his eyes as a scene on a stage. He refused to feel any sensible bruise on his head, with the admissi... ...nted by the shopkeeper, while the attendants climbed the ladder to up- per stages for white-waistcoat boxes, on his being; the first bird of the seaso... ... the key, this way the cupboard, of the supplies, their fuel. According to Stage directions, The Rajah and His Minister Enter a Gin-Palace.—It is to w... ... a short utterance between the nuptial two, of whom the unshamed exuberant male has found the sweet reverse in his mate, a 97 George Meredith haven o... ...g in my service an inveterate pugilist—who breaks the law from patriotism! Male or fe- male, these very respectable persons—the people your show was m... ... He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gol... ...and in- structed Germans not deviously march; whom acute and ad- venturous Americans, with half a cock of the eye in passing, compassionately outstrip... ...nt of commercial matters: rivalries of Banks; Foreign and Municipal Loans, American Rails, and Argen- tine; new Companies of wholesome appearance or s...

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...le INTRODUCTION TO THE EDITION OF 1892 BY ARTHUR STEDMAN Of the trinity of American authors whose births made the year 1819 a notable one in our liter... ...tsfield, Mass., ‘boarding around’ with the families of his pupils, in true American fashion, and easily suppressing, on one memorable occasion, the ef... ...e remained for four months, employed as a clerk. He joined the crew of the American frigate United States, which reached Boston, stopping on the way a... ...he gangway, was assisted on board, for our visitor was in that interesting stage of intoxication when a man is amiable and helpless. Although he was u... ...ore I trusted my weight to them. On arriving towards the end of the second stage in this vertical journey, and shaking the long roots which were round... ...ts, and after eating all that remained of our bread, prepared for the last stage of our journey. I will not recount every hair-breadth escape, and ev... ...s of the principal groups it is simply a sexual designation applied to the males; but it is now used by the natives in their intercourse with foreigne... ...to have been dictated by the most merciful considerations. T o destroy our malefactors piece-meal, drying up in their veins, drop by drop, the blood w... ... concentrated; and to have seen it filled with a crowd of the natives, all males, conversing in animated clusters, while multitudes were continually c...

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...ve been travelling along, stupidly enough, as you generally do in the last stage of the day; and the ninety six bells upon the horses—twenty four apie... ...d you have been thinking deeply about the dinner you will have at the next stage; when, down at the end of the long avenue of trees through which you ... ...t sellers; there, the shoe makers. The whole place looks as if it were the stage of some great theatre, and the curtain had just run up, for a picture... ...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ...te Campagna in one direc tion, where it was most level, reminded me of an American prairie; but what is the solitude of a region where men have never... ...tared at again, without let or hindrance. The body of the room was full of male strangers; the crowd immense; the heat very great; and the pressure so... ...s to remind them that he took the money. The majority were country people, male and female. There were four or five Jesuit priests, however, and some ... ...is very high) then rose up, and stretched out its tiny arms, while all the male spectators in the square uncovered, and some, but not by any means the...

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...wner of the V oice as sitting, a little nervously, a little modestly, on a stage, with table, glass of water and all complete, and myself as the intru... ...t static but kinetic, must shape not as a permanent state but as a hopeful stage, leading to a long ascent of stages. Nowadays we do not resist and ov... ..., and at the word terminology I should insinuate a comment on that eminent American bi- ologist, Professor Mark Baldwin, who has carried the language ... ... see the whole little drama, rather clearer than his words gave it me, the actors all absurdly in Hampstead middle-class raiment, meetings of a Sunday... ...ur premises—they, too, will only be in 41 H G Wells the same experimental stage as ourselves. In Utopia, how- ever, they will conduct research by the... ...ing the obverse side, and a head thereon—of Newton, as I live! One detects American influ- ence here. Each year, as we shall find, each denomination o... ...*But see Gidding’s Principles of Sociology, a modern and richly suggestive American work, imperfectly appreciated by the Brit- ish student. See also W... ...ar more from a white man than a negress or pigmy woman from her equivalent male. The education, the mental disposition, of a white or Asiatic woman, r... ...e, perhaps, no more than the jealous and tyr- annous will of the strongest male in the herd, the instru- ment of justice and equality. The State inter...

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...gh to endure the search for a B.V.D. undershirt which had, he pointed out, malevolently been concealed among his clean pajamas. He was fairly amiable ... ...lin Avenue & 3d St., N.E Zenith Omar Gribble, Esq., 376 North American Building, Zenith. Dear Mr. Gribble: Your letter of the twentieth t... ...ces between Thompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, effici... ...ompson, the old-fashioned, lean Yankee, rugged, traditional, stage type of American business man, and Babbitt, the plump, smooth, efficient, up-to-the... ...uch amused by the antiquated provincialism as any proper Englishman by any American. He knew himself to be of a breeding altogether more esthetic and ... ...ed into a raging hostess, she took care of the house and didn’t bother the males by thinking. She went on firmly: “It sounds awful to me, the way they... ... gained nothing but his crooked nose, his cel- ebrated vocabulary, and his stage-presence. The service of the Lord had been more profitable. He was ab... ...his wife was too busy to be impressed by that moral indignation with which males rule the world, and he went humbly up-stairs to dress. He had an impr... ... or two people. “Gosh, I’m not doing so bad; hittin’ ‘em up like a regular stage dancer!” he gloated; and she answered busily, “Yes—yes—I told you I c...

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...es.’ When a nation has acknowledged that it is as yet but in the fisticuff stage of the art of condensing our purest sense to golden sentences, a read... ...raglio Point: they have not yet doubled Cape T urk.’ It is war, and on the male side, Ottoman war: her experi- ence reduced her to think so positively... ...ND OF WHAT THEY LED TO A FORTNIGHT after this memorable Ball the principal actors of both sexes had crossed the Channel back to England, and old Irela... ...lood. There were, one hears that there still are, remnants of the pristine male, who, if resisted in their suing, conclude that they are scorned, and ... ... an actress showing herself nightly on a London 44 Diana of the Crossways stage, she would before now have met the superb apprecia- tion, melancholy ... ...ake a kind of hueless grey, and are chiefly strik- ing in an authoritative stage. Without contradicting, for he was exactly polite, his look signified... ... morum, spicing the lamentable derelictions of this and that great person, male and female. The plea of corruption of blood in the world, to excuse th... ...e worked for my bread. I had thoughts of America. I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.’ ‘Ah, Tony! there’s the looking ... ... inducement she had received to embark her money in this Company: a South- American mine, collapsed almost within hearing of the trum- pets of prospec...

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...to this the country has continued to flourish. It is a singular feature in American life that at the beginning of this century, when the proprietor of... ...al use in the west of England, whence it is most prob- ably derived by the Americans. The latter draw a distinction between a sled, or sledge, and a s... ...construction used for temporary purposes in the new countries. Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is m... ...ted the Judge with the character of those in the sleigh. It contained four male figures. On one of those stools that are used at writing desks, lashed... ...hen the law provided that all born after a certain day should be free, the males at twenty— eight and the females at twenty-five. After this the owner... ...which opened into the porch emerged two or three female domestics, and one male. The latter was bareheaded, but evidently more dressed than usual, and... ...serious, for I have fifty , at this moment, shut up in the coops, in every stage of fat, so that you might choose any quality you pleased. There are s... ...d temperature. Once, just as her eyes had opened, appar- ently in the last stage of drowsiness, the roaring winds brought with them a long and plainti... ...carried the mail or “the post,” as he was called, talked much of running a stage, and, once or twice during the winter, he was seen taking a single pa...

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...; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest. II Blodgett College is on the edge of Minneapolis. It ... ...Charles, would it interrupt your undoubt- edly fascinating pursuit of that malevolent fly if I were to ask you to tell us that you do not know anythin... ...ng up some cute kids and knowing nice homey people?” It was the immemorial male reply to the restless woman. Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-... ...u recipes for curry, voyages to the Solomon Isles, theoso- phy with modern American improvements, treatises upon success in the real-estate business. ... ... official. None of them made her more than pause in thought. For months no male emerged from the mass. Then, at the Marburys’, she met Dr. Will Kennic... ...t I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association meet- ing, and I spent practically a week in N... .... For fifteen minutes Carol kept it up. She asserted that she was going to stage a musical comedy, that she pre- ferred cafe parfait to beefsteak, tha... .... Wutherspoon. You’re the only famous actor I’m going to let appear on the stage tonight.” While Raymie blushed and admitted, “Oh, they don’t want to ... ...shields and faded red, white, and blue bunting. At the end was an abortive stage. The room was large enough for the community dances which Mrs. Nat Hi...

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...em look abroad and contemplate the scenes which were enacting around them. Stage coaches were upsetting in all directions, horses were bolting, boats ... ... of the covers. ‘Soles, Sir.’ ‘Soles—ah!—capital fish—all come from London stage coach proprietors get up political dinners—carriage of soles— dozens... ...s of Mr. Pickwick. That gentleman had gradually passed through the various stages which precede the lethargy produced by dinner, and its con sequence... ...en men hang about the stage of a large establishment—not regularly engaged actors, but ballet people, procession men, tumblers, and so forth, who are ... ...articles in requisition, while a couple of large headed, circular visaged males rose from their seats in the chimney corner (for although it was a Ma... ...lar wagrants there; trust ‘em, they knows better than that. Young beggars, male and female, as hasn’t made a rise in their profession, takes up their ... ...onclusion, when a window above stairs was thrown up, and three or four fe male voices repeated the query—’Who’s there?’ Mr. Pickwick dared not move h... ...f steps, leading to the house door, which was guarded on either side by an American aloe in a green tub, the sedan chair stopped. Mr. Pickwick and his... ...turn both Mr. Jingle and his attendant, down the flight of steps, into the American aloe tubs that stood beneath. ‘Having discharged my duty, Sir,’ sa...

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...-stairs of the sick or down-stairs of the dead. A-bed in these miserable rooms, here on bedsteads, there (for a change, as I understood it) on the flo... ...ered by a most intelli- gent master. I remarked in it, an instance of the collateral harm that obstinate vanity and folly can do. ‘This was the Hall w... ...lt is, that its form is beauti- The Uncommercial Traveller 31 ful, and that the appearance of the audience, as seen from the proscenium—with every fa... ...re, that a hand can scarcely move in the great assemblage with- out the movement being seen from thence—is highly re- markable in its union of vastnes... ... waiting for Jack. Now, it was a crouch- ing old woman, like the picture of the Norwood Gipsy in the old sixpenny dream-books; now, it was a crimp of ... ...es meet in ‘um middle, FOUR gents goes round ‘um ladies, Four gents passes out under ‘um ladies’ arms, swing—and Lemonade till ‘a moosic can’t play no... ...g come but the jug of ale and the bread, you implore your waiter to ‘see after that cutlet, waiter; pray do!’ He cannot go at once, for he is carrying... ...as already in the un- commercial line. This was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities—had bee... ... at every violent roll, becomes the regular blast of a high pressure en- gine, and I recognise the exceedingly explosive steamer in which I ascended t...

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... one profession, the one decent profession, I mean, for a woman—except the stage—is teaching, and there we trample on one another. Everywhere else—the... ... is. In all the species of animals the females are more important than the males; the males have to please them. Look at the cock’s feathers, look at ... ...d oxen and things all have to fight for us, everywhere. Only in man is the male made the most impor- tant. And that happens through our maternity; it’... ...al conquering the essential. Originally in the first animals there were no males, none at all. It has been proved. Then they appear among the lower th... ...said Ann Veronica. “It has been proved,” said Miss Miniver, and added, “by American professors.” “But how did they prove it?” “By science,” said Miss ... ...the profession.” “Oh!” said Ann V eronica. “I thought they made knights of actors?” “They may of Hal some day,” said Gwen. “But it’s a long business.”... ...rs. Warren’s Profession furtively with Hetty Widgett from the gallery of a Stage Society performance one Mon- day afternoon. Most of it had been incom... ...ean to fight this through if I possibly can.” “My God!” said Manning, in a stage-aside. “Earning a salary!” 99 H. G . Wells “You’re like a Princess i...

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... the great lakes that date as settlements as far back as many of the older American towns, and which were the seats of a species of civilization long ... ...e is clearing the way for the advancement of civilization across the whole American continent. THE P A THFINDER CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER ... ...e had piled tree on tree, in such a manner as had not only enabled the two males of the party to ascend to an elevation of some thirty feet above the ... ...customed them to many of the luxuries of rank. Two of the party, indeed, a male and female, belonged to the native owners of the soil, being Indians o... ...eeping top, the rich varieties of the maple, most of the noble oaks of the American forest, with the broad-leaved linden known in the parlance of the ... ...lied to awe. “Uncle,” said the wondering, but pleased girl, addressing her male companion, whose arm she rather touched than leaned 7 James Fenimore ... ...spended from a post. Great care was taken to reserve the front seat of the stage for the three ladies and their children; while Mabel and those who be... ...all, boys,” called out the guide, who was now slowly advancing towards the stage occupied by the females; “if you find the target touched at all, I’ll... ...th indifference. Shaking his head in the negative, he advanced towards the stage, where his approach excited a little commotion, the officers’ ladies,...

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...more favored individuals did credit to Miriam’s selection. One was a young American sculptor, of high promise and rapidly increasing celebrity; the ot... ...adle. According to a third statement, she was the off-spring of a Southern American planter, who had given her an elabo- rate education and endowed he... ...stucco, and frescoed with scriptural scenes and subjects, in the dreariest stage of ruin. In one such chapel, the guide showed them a low arch, beneat... ... time, leaving it to be the thoroughfare of ambassadors, English noblemen, American millionnaires, artists, tradesmen, washerwomen, and people of ever... ...s from it, we know not which. There was wedded affection in its successive stages, represented in a series of delicately conceived designs, touched wi... ...oughly modelled little figures in clay or plaster, exhib- iting the second stage of the idea as it advances towards a marble immortality; and then is ... ...eatures, in petticoats, but otherwise man- like, toiling side by side with male laborers, in the rudest work of the fields. These sturdy women (if as ... ...rd the clamor that he made, they had responded only with sullen and drowsy maledictions, and turned to sleep again. It must be a very dear and intimat... ..., —through barbarism and civilization, alter- nating with one another like actors that have prearranged their parts: through a broad pathway of progre...

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...ad of his brother of the steerage is one altogether of sentiment. In the steerage there are males and females; in the second cabin ladies and gentleme... ...second cabin ladies and gentlemen. For some time after I came aboard I thought I was only a male; but in the course of a voyage of discovery between d... ...learned that I was still a gentleman. Nobody knew it, of course. I was lost in the crowd of males and females, and rigorously confined to the same qua... ... who deserve a special word of condemnation. One of them was Scots; the other claimed to be American; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born i... ...ne, for instance, the composition of which he had bought years ago for five dollars from an American pedlar, and sold the other day for a hundred poun... ...ead break in the course of our enjoyment. STEERAGE TYPES WE HAD A FELLOW on board, an Irish-American, for all the world like a beggar in a print by Ca... ...d the lower; and I wish some one would continue my experiment, and find out exactly at what stage of toilette a man becomes invisible to the well-regu... ...seemed to lose all interest in the result. 80 Essays of Travel Wendover (which was my next stage) lies in the same val- ley with Great Missenden, but... ...l clock, as marking the advance of the abstraction, time, makes a more humorous business of stage-coaching than we are used to see it. As far as the e...

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...s of self was cast away. Among these we cannot forbear mentioning the poor American soldier, who, grievously wounded, had just been laid in the middle... ...l bear hoisting better than he will’. And, even as we write, we hear of an American Railway collision that befell a train on the way to Elmira with pr... ...rone, he decreed that a pension should be given to the family as long as a male representative remained to bear the name of D’Assas. Poor Louis XVI ha... ...own; but as fast as they worked, the higher did the Gauls within raise the stages of their rampart, and for twenty-five days there was a most brave de... ...e citizens were wont to assemble for these diversions. Sometimes these are stages of circular galleries of seats hewn out of the hillside, where rows ... ...nced fearlessly within his grasp. Then in would come twelve elephants, six males in togas, six females with the veil and pallium; they took their plac... ... this slavish mimic warfare—sport to the beholders, but sad earnest to the actors. Christianity worked its way upwards, and at least was pro- fessed b... ....’ When day began to break, the guard returned, and Gertrude took down her stage of wood and continued kneel- ing at the foot of the pole. Crowds of p... ...ntrast to Mr. Mompesson’s moral influence! Horrible crimes were committed. Malefactors were released from the prisons and convicts from the galleys, a...

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...d beginning to play stirring marches as we puffed out of the bay. THE NEXT STAGE was Gibraltar, where we were to change horses. Before sunset we skir... ...busy cheerful drama is heightened, as it were, by the decora- tions of the stage. The sky is delightfully brilliant; all the houses 34 Notes on a Jou... ...e moored everywhere, showing their flags, Rus- sian and English, Austrian, American, and Greek; and along the quays country ships from the Black Sea o... ...as en- deavouring to get the likeness of one or two of these comfort- able malefactors. One old and wrinkled she-criminal, whom I had selected on acco... ...in your hair:you would not listen to the choruses they were singing on the stage, for the voice of the fair one would be whispering a rendezvous for t... ...issaries, with silver maces shining in the sun. ’Twas the party of the new American Consul-General of Syria and Jerusalem, hastening to that city, wit... ...lem, so as to be on the spot in readiness. When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe... ...th. Hard by was Rebecca’s Well: a dead body was lying there, and crowds of male and female mourners dancing and howling round it. Now and then a littl... ...it. Then one of his companions got up and showed us his black cattle. The male slaves were chiefly lads, and the women young, well formed, and abomin...

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... is usually a drawn game. After that, the performer instantly departs with male dictory expressions, and is never heard of more. But the most wonderf... ...ose that between the T orrid Zone and the North Pole there are to be found male dancers with such astonishingly loose legs, fur nished with so many j... ..., git along with you, Sir, if you please; me and Mrs. Bigby don’t want no male parties here!’ That female was Mrs. Prodgit. I immediately withdrew, o... ... ashington Irv ing and Benjamin Franklin may have put it in my head by an American association of ideas; but there I was, and the Horse shoe Fall was... ...ast—unless it were always the same beast, in which case it would be a mere stage show, which the same public would go in the same state of mind to see... ...iled or sat upon, would be at all diverted by such an oc currence off the stage. Nor is the decent workman in the gallery, who is transported beyond ... ...ry vulnerable baby at home, greatly relishing the invulnerable baby on the stage, so in the Cremorne reality I can understand the mason who is always ... ...gateway in their uniforms, as if they had locked up all the balance (as my American friends would say) of the inhabitants, and could now rest a little... ...nces are obvious. The leather trade will be ruined, by the introduction of American timber, to be manufactured into shoes for the fallen English; the ...

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...using this discretion, served a summons upon Lucien. Behold the successive stages of the proceedings, all of them perfectly futile. Metivier, with the... ...r—too late. An actress sees so much of bailiffs, duns, and writs, upon the stage, that she looks on all stamped paper as a farce. T ears filled Lucien... ...ame legal formalities? These bare out- lines of the history of the various stages of procedure should open the eyes of Frenchmen to the meaning of the... ...he fair at Angouleme.” But neither the miller nor his wife suspected that (actors, princes, and bishops apart) there is a kind of being who is both pr... ...ht me of sending a pair of moccasins given to Florine as a curiosity by an American. Florine offered the huge sum of forty francs, that we might try o... ...gem. Then he went up to his room and locked himself in, struck dumb by the male- diction in his mother’s eyes. In the dead of night he wrote one more ... ...e contracted a bad habit, a trick—he took to chewing paper. The late M. de Malesherbes use to rap people over the knuckles; and he did this once, by t... ...s. A prisoner detained on arrest used to be subjected to rules devised for malefactors, unless he brought a special exemp- tion signed by the public p...

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.... While the words were coming out of his mouth, he saw the tramps, and the male tramp’s eyes and his met. The man had one eyebrow and his lips at one ... ...eady, out of sheer rivalry, to grant anything I pleased to covet. At every stage of my growth one or another of my passions was alert to twist me awry... ...ained the day in love-affairs, I suspect you’d run a good race against the male half of our county, William. And a damned good test of a man’s metal, ... ...d. ‘Pretty nigh, William.’ ‘That’s our curse, Greg. Money settled on their male issue, and money in hand; by the Lord! we’ve always had the look of a ... ... ‘both? We have been separated. Do tell me every- thing. Don’t look at the stage-they speak such nonsense. How did you remember me? How happy I am to ... ...eflection increased his indignation. Anything that went wrong on the first stages of the journey caused him to recapitulate her epithets and reply to ... ...mewhere, for news arrived of my father’s approach with a French company of actors, and deafening entertainments were at hand. On the whole, I thought ... ... soit peu philosophe, a ce qu’on dit; a traveller. They say he has a South American complexion. I knew him a boy; and his passion is to put together w...

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... INTRODUCTION All who are acquainted with the early history of the Italian stage are aware that Arlecchino is not, in his original concep- tion, a mer... ...ll appear from the following theatrical anecdote:— An actor on the Italian stage permitted at the Foire du St. Germain, in Paris, was renowned for the... ...ed with it. The author, so long and loudly called for, has appeared on the stage, and made his obeisance to the audi- ence. Thus far his conduct is a ... ...rge theatre with benches continu- ally empty, to the discouragement of the actors and the dis- comfort of the spectators. (Applause.) He then commente... ...y grandsire, the inditer of this goodly matter, was rather lengthy, as our American friends say. Indeed, I reserve the rest of the piece until I can o... ...y incline to the account of my previous life, and bestowed some High- land maledictions, more emphatic than courteous, on Christie Steele’s reception ... ...et terrible in their tenor, used frequently to extort, through fear of her maledictions, the relief which was denied to her necessities; and the tremb... ... his mother, in the first burst of her impatience, showering after him her maledictions, and in the next invoking them on her own head, so that they m... ...rvade every civilized country. Amongst their mountains, as among the North American Indians, the various tribes were wont to make war upon each other,...