DON CORONADO
THROUGH KANSAS.
FIRST.
The Pinta Nina and Santa Maria
Sailed out of Palos one day,
Navigated by the Pinzons and HE
Who discovered the land of the free. ,
HE INDIANS of New York and a
few other states have been made fa-
mous by James Fenimore Cooper. His
"Deerslayer," "The Prairie," "The
Pathfinder," and the "Last of the
E^ Mohicans" have become universal lit-
erature: for not only in the United States and Canada
are they read, but they have been translated into many
languages, and in all probabihty centuries hence they
wlU be perused by students of American history to
obtain an insight into the pecuUar characteristics of
the "'Ked Men" of North America, a type of humanity
nowhere to be found in any other quarter of the
globe. Not only are they of an original make physi-
cally, but particularly mentally, for those who know
the Indians declare "the way of the Indian is mys-
terious. ' He has the characteristics of the hyena,
which, when viewed in the zoological gardens and