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By and HISTORY OF THE DAKOTAS. 147 by he came home from hunting, and found the woman sit- ting in a corner of the teepee with something that squalled. He thought it was a bird. But, tradition aside, Mr. Lynd thinks that the argu- ments from language and special customs, lead us to con- nect the North American Indians with the Asiatics, and especially with the Hindoos. In the Faquir of India he finds a brother of the dreaming god seeking Dakota. " The waters of the Mississippi and the Missouri m...ingle with the Ganges and the Indus. " The chapter on " Early History, " which is the third, concludes in this way : " One thing alone is evident through this ancient gloom. A great past idea, that has no reference to the present state of the Indian, is still self -existent in him, and points with unmistakable finger to an origin beyond the land of his later inheritance. But it passes over him like a dream in a dream, and seems enwrapped in the man- tle of silence. " Of Mr. Lynd's chapter on character only about ten pages are preserved.
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