This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. The California Indians.--Population.--Origin.--Races and Tribes.-- Languages. -- Physical Characteristics. -- Dress. -- Habitation.-- Weapons.--Occupation.--Mechanical Arts. -- Money. -- Amusements.--Government.--Religion.--Diseases and their Cure.-- Death.-- Morality.-- Marriage.-- ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. The California Indians.--Population.--Origin.--Races and Tribes.-- Languages. -- Physical Characteristics. -- Dress. -- Habitation.-- Weapons.--Occupation.--Mechanical Arts. -- Money. -- Amusements.--Government.--Religion.--Diseases and their Cure.-- Death.-- Morality.-- Marriage.-- Polygamy.-- Adultery.-- Other Vices.--Virtues. BEFORE we continue the narrative it will be necessary to become acquainted with the characteristics of the Indians of whom the missionaries were expected to make fervent Christians and useful subjects of the king. All accounts agree in representing the natives of California as among the most stupid, brutish, filthy, lazy and. improvident of the aborigines of America. Tuthill1 voices the impressions of all the early navigators, explorers, and travelers when he says that "of all wretchedly debased and utterly brutal beings, the Indians of California were the farthest fallen below the average Indian type. They were neither brave nor bold, neither generous nor spirited. We hear of no orators among them, no bold braves terribly resenting and contesting the usurpation of the whites. They were 'Diggers, ' filthy and cowardly, succumbing without a blow to the rule of foreign masters. Perhaps the mild, motherly sort of treatment which priests met them with, disarmed them. . . . They were as contemptible physically as intellectually, and evinced as little traces of conscience as of a reasoning faculty. Venegas thought the Lower Californians to be the most stupid and weak, in both body and mind, of all mortals; but the settlers of Upper California, who had seen both, thought the northern natives far inferior to the southern.2 Humboldt, from all his reading, concluded them as low in the scale of humanity as the...
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