Important Indian Manuscripts (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Important Indian Manuscripts It may not occur to the reader at the first glance the important interest of this manuscript to the public - even the small portion which we have transcribed. To the linguist it offers a wide field of speculation. The efforts of the mind to communicate important events to distant friends is here developed. It shows how the savage when driven by necessity, can perpetuate a record of his actions, or those of his enemies in characteristic emblems. To the antiquarian, even this small scrap must prove a source of gratification. In this he will see the hieroglyphics of the Egyptians, he will assimilate the wood engraving of the Chinese to the etching on the tree. The imagination will be carried back to the time when the nations of this country recorded the deeds of their chiefs and warriors in a symbolical language. A written language is one of the first signs of the progress of a nation to civization, and when a people are retrogading to barbarity, it is their learning which first suffers revolutions - obscurity and final extinction. We are informed that several specimens of pictorial language are found with the Western Indians, and that the declaration of war between the United States and Great Britain in 1812, was etched on trees in such characters that the Indians from Lake Eric to the Falls of St. Anthony, not only knew the belligerent attitude of the two nations, but a faithful record of the causes which were supposed to lead to the rupture, was communicated therewith. 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.