Note K — THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON.

See Southey’s Wesley, chap. III. Report of Joint Delegation of the Society of Friends, 1869. Hedge’s Primeval World of Hebrew Tradition, p. 83. Coffin’s New Way Round the World, pp. 270, 308, 361. Colden’s History of the Five Indian Nations (dedication). He says also, “We have reason to be ashamed that those infidels, by our conversation and neighborhood, are become worse than they were before they knew us.” It appears from this book (as from other witnesses), that one of the worst crimes now practiced by the Indians has sprung up since that day, being apparently stimulated by the brutalities practiced by whites towards Indian women. Colden says, “I have been assured that there is not an instance of their offering the least violence to the chastity of any woman that was their captive” (Vol. I., p. 9, 3d ed.). Compare Parkman’s Pontiac, II., 236.