Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 23: An Illustrated Magazine Published Semi-Monthly, Designed Expressly for the Education and Elevation of the Young; July 1, 1888 He then seemed moved with pity and promised to find them relief from their dire necessity. Calling upon several of the leading chiefs to follow him he led them away among the hills some distance to what afterwards proved to be a valuable silver mine. -here by a crude process he showed them how to separ ate the precious metal from the dross. The silver was then to be fashioned into various trinkets to please the taste of the savage, and by the barter of these ornaments were they to se cure their necessary food supply. Under no circumstance, however, were they to reveal the location Of this mine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.