Note [561 — Chapter VI
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[561] Smith, A Description of New England, etc., in Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, series 3, vi, p. 132. There is no reason to believe that Smith had ideas regarding the Indians different from those held by the Englishmen of his time who did not rank the savage above the position of the slave, and who generally looked upon the Indians as a “degraded, inferior and faithless race, and no more to be regarded than the Africans.” Drake, op. cit., edition of 1867, p. 7.