Note 19 — CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO THE ARROW-HEAD MEMORIAL TO THE LOST MONBAS TRIBES
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Profane and blasphemous words were unknown to the native races in the Americas. These people believed that speech was given man to enable him to praise his Maker.
To this day the Indian is chary of words—and in all the relations of life his language is circumspect, and dignified. He only speaks when it is necessary, and rightly has profound contempt for the human who talks too much.