They reminded me much of Indians, did these people.

They had but little clothing, but such as they had was fanciful in character and fantastic in its arrangement.

Any little absurd gewgaw or gimcrack they had they disposed in such a way as to make it attract attention most readily.

They sat in silence, and with tireless patience watched our every motion with that vile, uncomplaining impoliteness which is so truly Indian, and which makes a white man so nervous and uncomfortable and savage that he wants to exterminate the whole tribe.
These people about us had other peculiarities, which I have noticed in the noble red man, too: they were infested with vermin, and the dirt had caked on them till it amounted to bark.
The little children were in a pitiable condition--they all had sore eyes, and were otherwise afflicted in various ways.

They say that hardly a native child in all the East is free from sore eyes, and that thousands of them go blind of one eye or both every year.