Few passages of history are more striking than those which record the efforts of the earlier French Jesuits to convert the Indians.
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We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.Francis Parkman
Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.
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America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
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Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity.
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Fort Leavenworth is in fact no fort, being without defensive works, except two block-houses.
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Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.
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