A Brief History of the Missionary Work in the Indian Territory of the Indian Mission Conference

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Excerpt from A Brief History of the Missionary Work in the Indian Territory of the Indian Mission Conference: Methodist Episcopal Church South Ties than the ancient Hebrew and the American Indian. When America was discovered by Christopher Columbus four-hun dred years ago this race of Indians was quite numerous. They occupied every habitable zone in North, South and Central America, including all the islands in the vicinity of these continents. No correct estimate could be made as to the ex act numbers, but it is a safe thing to say they numbered sev eral millions of souls. When first discovered there was really no evidence of civilization among them, nor was there any thing to show that they had even been different from what they were then - savages. Excepting the Incas of South America, and the Aztec-s and kindred races of Mex1co, the great mass of the American Indians were a rude, warlike. Savage people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.