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- North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1906 : July, v.6 : no.1]
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- Date
- July 1906
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- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history [1906 : July, v.6 : no.1]
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THE NORTH CAROLINA BOOKLET,
HE INDIAN TRIBES OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.
BY RICHARD DILLARD, M.D.
“ Ye whose hearts are fresh ami simple,
Who have faith in God and nature,
Who believe that in all ages
Every human heart is human.
That in even savage bosoms
There are longings, yearnings, strivings
For the good they comprehend not,
That the feeble hands and helpless,
Groping blindly in the darkness,
Touch God’s right hand in that darkness
And are lifted up and strengthened;
Listen to this simple story.”
The first Indian tableau upon which the curtain of our
history rises is the royal reception of Ainidas and Barlow by
Granganameo “in the delicate garden abounding in all kinds
of odoriferous flowers” on the Island of W
осокой.
The last
is when, chagrined by the defeat and failure of the Tnsearora
War, they are driven forever from the shores of the Albe¬
marle. The scenes between are interspersed with acts of
kindness and of cruelty, bloody massacres and the torch, with
long interludes, in which the curtain is so closely hauled
down that not a ray of light reaches us, so that, the path¬
finders of history can scarcely discern a single blazed tree t.o
guide them through that untrodden solitude.
The mural frescoes by Alexander in the Congressional Li¬
brary most beautifully tell the story of the evolution of learn¬
ing in five allegorical paintings: the first is a picture of a
caim built by a prehistoric man to commenorate some im¬
portant. event.; the second is oral tradition, an ancient story¬
teller surrounded by a group of attentive listeners ; the third
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