Their _Bibles_ had increased in their various boxes since the last census to more than a hundred and fifty; their _religious tracts_, which they could not read, to some thousands; their _dolls_, in all, to fifty; and other useless toys, to a great number. Then came their _medals_, their _grosses of buttons_, their _beads_, _ribbons_, _brooches_, _fans_, _knives_, _daggers_, _combs_, _pistols_, _shawls_, _blankets_, _handkerchiefs_, _canes_, _umbrellas_, _beaver hats_, _caps_, _coats_, _bracelets_, _pins_, _eye-glasses_, &c. &c.; and then their prints--views of countries they had seen, of _churches_, _cathedrals_, _maps of London and Paris_, _views of bridges_, of _factories_, of _coal-pits_, of _catacombs_, of _Morgues_, &c. &c., to an almost countless number, all to be opened and commented upon, and then scattered, as the first indications of civilization, in the wilderness. These are but mere toys, however, but gewgaws that will be met as matters of course, and soon used up and lost sight of. But Jim's book of the statistics of London, of Paris, and New York, will stand the _Magna Charta_ of his nation, and around it will assemble the wiseacres of the tribe, descanting on and seeking for a solution of the blessings of civilization, as the passing pipe sends off its curling fumes, to future ages, over its astounding and marvellous estimates of civilized _nations_, of _cities_, of _churches_, of _courts of justice_, and _gaols_--of the tens of thousands of civilized people who are in it recorded (to their amazement) as _blind_, as _deaf and dumb_, and _insane_; of _gallows_ and _guillotines_, of _massacres_ and _robberies_, the number of _grog-shops_ and _breweries_, of _coal-pits_, of _tread-mills_ and _foundling hospitals_, of _poorhouses_ and _paupers_, of _beggars_ and _starvation_, of _brothels_, of _prisons for debtors_, of _rapes_, of _bigamy_, of _taxation_, of _game-laws_, of _Christianity_, of _drunkenness_, of _national debt_ and _repudiation_. The estimates of all these subjects have gone to the wilderness, with what the eyes of the Indians saw of the poverty and distress of the civilized world, to be taught to the untaught, and hereafter to be arrayed, if they choose, against the teachings of civilization and Christianity in the Indian communities: a table of the enormous numbers in the civilized world who by their own folly or wickedness drag through lives of pain and misery, leaving their Indian critics, in the richness of their imaginations, to judge of the immense proportion of the enlightened world who, in just retribution, must perish for their crimes and their follies; and in their ignorance, and the violence of their prejudices, to imagine what proportion of them are actually indulged in the comforts of this life, or destined to enjoy the happiness of the world to come.