Lights and Shadows of American Life, Vol. 1 of 3
Mary Russell Mitford
Hardcover
(Forgotten Books, Jan. 25, 2018)
Excerpt from Lights and Shadows of American Life, Vol. 1 of 3But we are savages, and the white people, who are wiser than we are, have a law, by which, if a white man goes ashore upon a new part of the earth, and gives it a name, and buries a bottle, and hoists a flag over it, his tribe have What the savages who dwell in it, and have pursued their prey over it, age after age, have not, according to such law; that is, a full right.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.