E orribile, come bruttissimi sono in genere questi indiani della costa, molto in cio diversi dagli indiani delle tribu interne che sono gente bellissima, comeche ora degradati dai liquori e dai vizi che essi hanno imparati dai bianchi. La razza indiani e, si puo dire, quasi finita, dopo una lotta lunga e terribile con l’elemento bianco, lotta in cui piu barbari non furon certo le pellirosse, lotta in cui i bianchi dovettero la vittoria ai tradimenti ed ai cannoni, non certo alla bonta della loro causa ed alla civilta nell’agire.
But they are horrible, these indians from the coast, ugly and awful, very different from the indian tribes from the interior, who are beautiful people, however now, degraded by liquor and vices that they’ve learned from the whites. The indian race, you could say, is nearly finished, after a long and terrible struggle with the white element, a struggle in which there were certainly no more barbarous than the redskins, a struggle in which the whites owed their victory to trade and canons, certainly not to the justice of their cause or to civility in action.
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