Take the Indian, for instance.
The white man comes along and beats him at all his games, outworks him, out-roughs him, out-fishes him, out-hunts him.

As far back as their myths go, the Alaskan Indians have packed on their backs.

But the gold-rushers, as soon as they had learned the tricks of the trade, packed greater loads and packed them farther than did the Indians.
Why, last May, the Queen's birthday, we had sports on the river.

In the one, two, three, four, and five men canoe races we beat the Indians right and left.

Yet they had been born to the paddle, and most of us had never seen a canoe until man-grown." "But why is it ?" Corliss queried.
"I do not know why.