Dritter Protest gegen Professor Isidor Neumann's Geschichtsschreiberei über Syphilis / [Johann Karl Proksch].

  • Proksch, J. K. (Johann Karl), 1840-1923.
Date:
1896
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Credit: Dritter Protest gegen Professor Isidor Neumann's Geschichtsschreiberei über Syphilis / [Johann Karl Proksch]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fine Boy of eight vears, and tlie other six, to complete the affair she hung herseif. “Month of August 1 bid von farewell With all Aly heart, al'ter running twentv liair breadth escapes, threatened every instant to be all Murdered, however it is the Wish of [your] humble Servant that the Month of September Will be More Favorable, the Number of Deaths up to the present is Very Near five hundred. The Mandans are all Cut off except 23 young and Old Men. “(September) Sunday 3. A Young Mandan came to pay us a Visit from the Little Village, he informes us, that they are all Most all used up, and that it is his opinion that before the disease stops, that there will not One be left, except 8 or 10 that has Weathered out the Sickness— “Tuesdav 19. I was Visited bv a Young fellow from the little Village, he assures Me that there is but 14 of them liveing, the Number of deaths Cannot be less than 800—What a bande of rascals has been used up— “Thursdav 21. The Mandans fearing their Allies, the Rees should unite With the Sioux, have all fled to the Opposite Side of the river, what their intention is I know Not, but the few that are left (41), Are Miserable, surrounded on all Sides.” The miserable wretches for the most part were voiceless and could only indicate their abject wretchedness and hopelessness bv committing atrocities on themselves and their peopls. But they had one spokesman, 4 Bears—a chief to whose good char- acter Chardon gives testimony in this diarv—who was able to describe the calamity in worcls that enable us to realize the awful anguish of the Indians. Of this, Dr. Ouaife, in a personal com- munication, says, “I should lilce also to call your attention to the speech of 4 Bears, printed on page 299. It seems to me an unusual example of Indian eloquence.” It is recorded at the end of Chardon's journal. “SPEECH OF THE 4 BEARS, A MAX DAR WARRIOR, TO THE ARRICAREES AND MANDAN—30TH JULY, 1837 “My Friends one And all, Listen to what I have to say—Ever since I Can remember, I have loved the Whites, I have lived With them ever since I was a Boy, and to the best of My Knowledge, I have Never Wronged a White Man, on the Con- trary, I have always Proctected them from the insults of others, Which they Cannot deny, The 4 Bears Never saw a White Man hungry, but that he gave him to eat, Drink, and a Buffaloe skin to sleep on, in time of Need, I was always ready to die for them, Which they Cannot deny, I have done everything that a red Skin could do for them, And how have they repaid it! With Ingratitude! I have Never Called a White Man a Dog, but to dav I do Pronounce them to be a set of Black harted Dogs,