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Show OKLAHOMA. 195 " FINE FIELD FOR THE ETHNOLOGIST." is a population of perhaps a hundred a few good men, more shiftless whites, average Indians, and suspicious- looking half- breeds. For five weeks I wandered about the Indian Territory, a pleasant sort of half wilderness for a Bohemian to recreate in. Here are pure-blooded Aborigines who are something more than hunters and root- dig-gers ; here are republican governments run on aboriginal principles, with aboriginal ^) fficial titles, and such a mixture of races as affords a fine field for the ethnologist. One meets with some awkward surprises, with facts that unsettle a great deal we had considered settled. A re-gion half as large as Ohio ( exclud-ing the sand- hills and deserts) has some 60,000 inhabitants : a people rich in flocks and herds, enjoying themselves in a simple, pastoral way, content with their mode of life, and indifferent to the rush and struggle of more artificial societies. One may travel for hundreds of miles on the public roads and never see a full- blooded Indian; yet such are in the majority, as shown by the census. They usually live off the roads and' in the timber along the streams. The mild warmth of a March Sabbath in that latitude led me to make an excursion down Cabin Creek to a log church and school-house, where I found a congregation of fifty- two persons. There were all shades, from African black to pure white with blue eyes and flaxen hair. There were families of half a dozen each, representing three or four types of the half- breed. One very intelligent gentle-man told me he had a family of nine of just nine different shades from pure white to almost pure Indian. His first wife was half Shawnee, from Canada, and her first husband a full- blood Cherokee, the three children of that union being rather dark. By this woman he had four children, only quarter blood, but varying greatly in com-plexion. After her death he married a blonde Irish woman; they had two children, one a clear- skinned, freckled, blue- eyed Celt, the other dark enough to pass for a " White Cherokee." " It's singular how it will come back in this country," he ex-plained. " I ' ve known ' em to have regular Injun children after two generations of nearly white, and children of pure white people born here are often very dark. I know two White Cherokees, married, that you could n't tell either of ' em from a regular white person, and |