An Extraordinary Hoax Attacks Upon the Manuscrit Pictographique Amricain Edi
An Extraordinary Hoax Attacks Upon the Manuscrit Pictographique Amricain Edi
United States. War Dept
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His rendering is certainly open to the criticism that it is disjointed, and leaves no very coherent impression upon the reader's mind. But if this be so, it is undoubtedly the fault of the manuscript and not of the inter preter ; for the Abb6 is as bold a commentator as a truth-loving Frenchman need be. He finds in its pages medicine-men, and spirits, and chieftains, and wigwams in abundance records of treaties, deaths, wars, emigrations, and (of course) of the intro duction of Christianity amo...ng the tribes. He even discovers a picture of the Fall, a representation of a priest in the act of eleva-l tion at the mass, and several other allusions to the practices ofl the Roman Catholic religion. But these do not form the burden of the pictorial chronicles of the Red Men. The mass of the Livre des Sauvages consists of representations which would have made the late Lord Chancellor's blood run cold, but "which only call up in the Abbess passionless mind memories of the mystic worships of the ancient world.
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