Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

1DIA\~'t1i'+lh. CHARiACTER AND HABITS. 269
a-nd Iiclian minster, unencumbered, save his gun or
bow and arrows, walks as ptoudlvy as one having a
little brief authority and monarch of all he surveyed.
Oite would suppose that the Indian husband, when
judged by the high and humane standard of Christianity, is to his wife like an island with a stream of
cold water flowing around him-not a part of the
main land of domestic happiness. The Inrdian's
lordliness and oppression to their females I am persuaded is not caused from thl)e want of native affection, but from legendary habit. Theyseem tothiL)k
it right, as a matter of course, having never knownii
differently. They never can be made to paddle their
Indian canoe kindly on that stream which runs sleepless night and day, gliding through the beautiful
Teelinritig meadow of a higher, intelligent, Christianized domestic life, such as is expressed in the folowing stanzas:
Thou art on my bosom sleeping,
Gentle trusting wife of mile;
And mine eyes are fondly keeping
Love's unwavering watch o'er thine!
Hushed shall be my very breath,
While thy clear heart slutmbereth.
Sleepest thou as slept in Eden,
Slept in beauty holy Ea -
Ere her soul with grief was laden —
re her bosom could deceive;
Wife! may thou thus ever be('liet' H t(t guile unknown to thee.
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