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the  Choctaws.  The  Cherokees,  perhaps  because  they  had  dis-
played a  less  eager  appetite  for  sacred  literature,  had  only  ob-
tained up  to  the  same  date  two  millions  two  hundred  and
three  thousand  two  hundred  pages ;  but  we  may  believe  they
were  satisfied  with  this  lesser  quantity,  which  represents  con-
siderably more  than  seven  thousand  volumes  of  three  hundred
pages  each.  The  Sioux,  great  contemners  of  studious  habits,
were  put  off  with  less  than  two  hundred  thousand  pages  ;  and
the  Ojibbeways  received  something  under  a  million.  We
shall  see  hereafter,  by  the  ample  confessions  of  the  mission-
aries, what  use  they  made  of  them.
