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in the New World, — inaccuracy of its application, 49, 50; lawfulness of a war of, maintained by Sepulveda, 55, 56; religious motive of, 70-74.
- Continent, the new, boon of, 13.
- Cooking, Indian, 147, 148, 178.
- Cornstock, Indian chief, 117.
- Cortes, his manner of "preaching the gospel" in Mexico, 67; his view of his mission there, 73; his attempt to convert Montezuma, 381.
- Coureurs de Bois, 291.
- Custer, General G. A., his estimate of the Indian, 101-107; his remarks upon the variety of their languages, 180; attains proficiency in Indian sign-language, 183.
D.
- Dartmouth College, its origin in a provision for the education of the Indian, 26.
- Deeds, Indian, rightfulness and legality of, 240, 241; the exact force of, 242, 335.
- Deer Island, 463.
- Defence, the, of the white man for his treatment of the Indian, 19.
- De Gourgues, Dominique, retaliates upon the Spanish in Florida for their destruction of Huguenot colony, 274, 276.
- De Soto, his ravages through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, 75-79.
- Dodge, Richard Irving, his romantic experience with "a child of Nature" of the softer sex, 108, 109.
- Domain, our National, 208.
- Domestic animals as civilizers, 625.
- Dreams, Indian superstition about, 190, 191.
- Druillettes, Jesuit Father, some account of his life and labors, 429, 430; his diplomatic mission to New England, 430; visits Boston, Plymouth, and Salem, 430, 431; his interview with John Eliot, 432.
- Dufferin, Earl of, his opinion of the French half-breeds, 301; his statement of the relations of the Canadian Government to the Indians, 478.
- Dug-outs, Indian, 169.
- Dunraven, Earl of, his experience with, and views of, the Indian, 608-610.
- Dunster, President, 423, 444.
- Dutch, the, in New York, — their amicable relations with the Indians, and first to sell them fire-arms, 282, 343; their subsequent wars with the red men, 343, 344.
E.
- Education of the Indians, early provision for, 25, 26; later provision for, 628.
- Eliot, John, Indian missionary and apostle: his birth, 423; studies for the ministry, arrives in Boston, settles in Roxbury, 424; meets opposition at first in his missionary purposes for the Indians, 424; begins to study their language, 425; after two years' study begins to preach to the natives, 426, 427; wins sympathy in his work, 427; chooses Natick as the scene of his great experiment for colonizing, converting, and civilizing the Indians, 428; receives a visit from the Jesuit Father Druillettes, 429, 432; his meekness and modesty, 434; method of his labors, 434, 435; the civil magistrates cautious in assisting him, 435; opposed by some of the sachems, 436; his Indian settlement at Natick, 437, — its hopeful beginnings, 438, — its internal arrangements, 438, 439; receives aid in his work from the English Society for propagating the gospel, 441; the mighty faith of some of his Indian disciples, 441, — some of their questions and arguments, 442-444, — their impatience for advancement in Church fellowship and privileges, 439, 445, — their "confessions" of faith, and examination by their minister, 446-448; his desire to translate the Scriptures into the Indian tongue, 449, 450;
