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Show 128 The greatest enemy of all undertakings .lin the Wild hunger or thirst, not the great bear of the American woods,ot the strong" lightning-fast jaguar or ,the alligator /?/ which lurks in swamps, but the Indian who sees in the white only a robber who has unlawfully driven him from his land, from where the wigwa of his .fe llow tribesmen lie and where innumerable herds of bison Wes!7 is not . . have provided him with noirr Lshmen t for ce nt.ur Le.s Joining the power of the bears with the cleverness of the panther are,the Indians who are capable·of every exertion and sacrifice, who are marve lous riders, we Ll= p r ac t Lced in the art of weapons, and who are prepared to bring forth the greatest sacrifice as well as the most audacious , No one could imagine ,tactics in battle with an enemy. more the silent forests and the errible enemies; easurable prairies are witnesses of heroic deeds which new European history could never display--deeds which are·reminders of the terrible· battles of which we· read in our sagas and legends.4 our With such May chose become to clearly felt-that been and So race the Indian had been noble a it self-appointed spokesman a with the 'white man, destructiono impression of the an. ,contact which was is understandable for the Indian. what he had He and great before his contact speeding him down the May wrote of the Indian as.he imagined he compared him'with why path once had then become: a proud, beautiful appearance was he Lthe Indi£7 earlier, as.he flew 'across the.breadth of the prairie, the mane·of his mustang flowing about-him; and how miserable and degenerated is he now. in the tattered He who with rags· that bare ly co-vel," his own nakedness! great strength was once able to battle the grey bears with but a ife and a tomahawk, now creeps about· in the corners like a mangy dog,. to beg meat, or to steal. Yes, he is a sick man, a dying man, and with sympathy What we tand at his bedside in order to close his eyes for him.5 May acknowledge ·redskino He 4 p. was forced by historical and the much-documented clung, however, to 48. 5winnetou, . I ,l.n tro • , 7 .. anthropological fact to depredations and savage·ways of the his romantic image of the red man to |
