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Title: Crusoe's island
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Browne, J. Ross (John Ross), 1821-1875
Subjects: Ethnic groups Mines and mineral resources
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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many, and captured a good manyothers, who were finally carried down to the Mendocinoreservation. They liked that place so well that they leftit very soon, and went back to their old places of resort,preferring a chance of life to the certainty of starvation.During the winter of last year a number of them weregathered at Humboldt. The whites thought it was afavorable opportunity to get rid of them altogether. Sothey went in a body to the Indian camp, during thenight when the poor wretches were asleep, shot all themen, women, and children they could at the first on-slaught, and cut the throats of the remainder. Very fewescaped. Next morning sixty bodies lay weltering intheir blood—the old and the young, male and female—with every wound gaping a tale of horror to the civilizedworld. Children climbed upon their mothers breasts,and sought nourishment from the fountains that deathhad drained; girls and boys lay here and there withtheir throats cut from ear to ear; men and women, cling-
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VROTEUTING THE 8ETTLBK8. 306 OBSERVATIONS IN OFFICE. ing to each other in their terror, were found perforatedwith bullets or cut to pieces with knives—all were cruel-ly murdered! Let any one who doubts this read thenewspapers of San Francisco of that date. It will befouud there in its most bloody and tragic details. Letthem read of the Pitt River massacre, and of all the mas-sacres that for the past three years have darkened therecords of the state. I will do the white people who were engaged in thesemassacres the justice to say that they were not so muchto blame as the general government. They had at leastgiven due warning of their intention. For years theyhad burdened the mails with complaints of the ineffi-ciency of the agents; they had protested in the newspa-pers, in public meetings, in every conceivable way, andon every possible occasion, against the impolicy of per-mitting these Indians to roam about the settlements,picking up a subsistence in whatever way they could,when the

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