Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Historical Records and Studies, Vol. 14
Since my arrival two years ago I have already assisted at two of these civil wars, 'quormn magna pars fui.' A chief of a distant tribe had been called to act as mediator between the parties at war. The conference was interesting. After he had spoken the orators of each party spoke in turn. Theirs is a savage eloquence, but I do not believe that in the eloquence of our greatest orators in the national assembly at Paris can there be found anything so natural, strong and just. I was astonished. Their language abounds in figures and is graceful and delicate. It is nature that speaks but nature freed from the trammels to which overwrought civilization often subjects our greatest orators. It is a robust nature that, unfolding itself like the oak of the forest, is full of life and majesty. Those who represent the Indians as a degenerate race are certainly wrong. Generally their judgment is sounder, their mind more masculine, their character more energetic and their passions stronger than the whites. After the orators had finished, the mediator gave his decision During the conference I was given a place of honor.
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