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he had (? sined?); or whence on awakening at the resurrection
he may reenter on his former possessions. The men race that
selected with a true instinct such beautiful and solemn resting
places for their departed friends, and with such unfailing attachment
visited and preserved the mounds raised to their memory
are not the mindless brutish race they have been represented
to be. There was true poetry in the souls of those who chose
the mountain peak for the long home of their friends, there
is true human feeling in the hearts of those who oft revisit
these sacred spots]
carry back to 16a
V. Illustrations of personal character might be given which
would fill volumes. The Law of retaliation, and too many
instances recorded in the public journals of merciless
vengeance inflicted sometimes on unoffending women
and children in return for wrong committed by others
alters the depth of hatred and revenge which finds a
place in their hearts. But there are cases well known
to some of our Colonists in which aborigines have
displayed forbearance and kindness towards a fallen foe.
And all who have dwelt near them bear witness that
when no special motive of vengeance prompts them to
cruelty they are ever kind to the helpless. The (arrivals?)