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NUMBES 15t- lived, as tier da milling descendant now ri °# a state t enervation, anti died in ie 1»6, aired about 104 years. Her father was the last chief who ruled, and she n was couVequenUf of royal blood—a princess in Tact, as she would hare been in a name, had the tribal condition of her peo .1 pU* con Untied.? 1 remember seeing her a few weeks be-r fore her death, end she talked with freo-y dom of the Indians and their habits. It e was interesting to hear her proa unci a-a | lion of the Indian words which have now f become local property, and are now at-e lached to so many places. In almost » I every instance the modern use of them la 1 merely a reduction of larger and more uo-r managable one*—word* which, as they 1 are now used, have been shorn of half or a third of their original syllables. She . | was intelligent and accustomed to talk,?1 and remembered of course, many curious ; t things. I vu struck with her statementthat she saw, when a little girl, on old Indian who had seen king I’uiilip. The old Inditn was telling her falter of ike [' personal traits and appearance of this doughty hero, and narrating, perhaps some of his unrecorded exploits; and the wtis a wrapt listener to the conversation. It was ruggestlve of TUortau's way of lueaaunngThe distance which die current'■ripture chronology acta between us andthe garden of Eden; for, be says, It only requires about sixty of oar gaandmuth-j era to take us back to Eve. To see an Indian who had seen King Phillip (and I i therefore, came nly whhtn one remove of it) was like 'putting yonr band backward upon the vessel which landed at Plymouth Rock. When one sits down *o thiuk the matter serious hr over, ll dot I not seem so long as it didllnce Columbus discovered America, or since William the Conqueror set foul in England, or, in fact,| since anything ancient hapjicned, Even those indeterminate sons of Huxley and the gceloglst are visibly shortened when a few mcmoriea pasted together cover such an arc of time.
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Plymouth Marshall County Republican
Plymouth, Indiana, US
Thu, Mar 29, 1877
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