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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860
Year: 1860 (1860s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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dered wisely on the text in Ecclesiasticus,which says, Wisdom cometh to the learned 1:^opportunity of leisure, and he that hath littlebusiness shall become wise. Simon has no family, but lives in the houseof a married sister—a poor shell of beams andboards, unplastered and unpartitioned, with alarge crooked chimney built up through the cen-tre! He is fond of talking with strangers, and,when the ice of ceremony is melted, there is asincere and confiding simplicity about him thatspeedily wins both respect and good-will. Helaments the decadence of his race, and speaks ofit, not as the result of vices caught from thewhites, nor of oppression and abuse, but simplyas the will of God, Philosophers who seekfor a cause less comprehensive can see nothingmore in it than the fulfillment of an inevitablelaw, whose existence is based upon all reliableobservation, past and present—that the inferiorrace must perish before the civilization of thesuperior. The population of the Gay Head reservation
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454 HARPEES NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. numbers about three hundred, greatasd small. Very few of them areof pure Indian blood, as they haveintermarried with negroes and mu-lattoes of every grade, who, in pur-suit of that life of equality andlazy independence which they havesought in vain among the whites,readily associate themselves withthese remnants of the aboriginaltribes. Notwithstanding these cas-ual additions to the community itsnumbers diminish from year toyear, and in a few more decadesnothing will remain of them butthe name. As we shouldered our knapsacksto start on our way to TisburyDeacon Simon volunteered to ac-company us, promising to show ussome objects of curiosity which hethought worthy of attention. The first was atombstone, near the church, marking the graveof a deceased clergyman. The inscription, nownearly elfaced, appears to be a mixture of theIndian and English languages, and although Ican not perceive that there is any especial inter-est attached to it, to please our

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