We Were Now Arrived At The Close

Faithfulness To The Truth Of History Involves Far More Than A Research, However Patient And Scrupulous, Into Special Facts. Such Facts May Be Detailed With The Most Minute Exactness, And Yet The Narrative, Taken As A Whole, May Be Unmeaning Or Untrue. The Narrator Must Seek To Imbue Himself With The Life And Spirit Of The Time. He Must Study Events In Their Bearings Near And Remote; In The Character, Habits, And Manners Of Those Who Took Part In Them. He Must Himself Be, As It Were, A Sharer Or A Spectator Of The Action He Describes.

Many Of The Iroquois And Huron Houses Were Of Similar Construction, The Partitions Being At The Sides Only, Leaving A Wide Passage Down The Middle Of The House.

We Were In All Four Men With Eight Animals; For Besides The Spare Horses Led By Shaw And Myself, An Additional Mule Was Driven Along With Us As A Reserve In Case Of Accident.

Fort Leavenworth Is In Fact No Fort, Being Without Defensive Works, Except Two Block-houses.

The Young Nobles, Of Whom There Were Many, Were Volunteers, Who Had Paid Their Own Expenses In Expectation Of A Golden Harvest, And They Chafed In Impatience And Disgust. The Religious Element In The Colony-unlike The Former Huguenot Emigration To Brazil--was Evidently Subordinate. The Adventurers Thought More Of Their Fortunes Than Of Their Faith.