Name: 第1部--《最後的莫希幹人》有聲小說，詹姆斯-費尼莫爾-庫珀著（第01-05章）。 (Part 1 - The Last of the Mohicans Audiobook by James Fenimore Cooper (Chs 01-05))
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It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the information necessary to

understand its allusions, are rendered sufficiently obvious to the reader in the

text itself, or in the accompanying notes.

Still there is so much obscurity in the Indian traditions, and so much confusion in

the Indian names, as to render some explanation useful.

Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of

character, than the native warrior of North America.

In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and self-devoted;

in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and

These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike; but they are so

far the predominating traits of these remarkable people as to be characteristic.

It is generally believed that the Aborigines of the American continent have

There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opinion, and

some few that would seem to weigh against it.

The color of the Indian, the writer believes, is peculiar to himself, and while

his cheek-bones have a very striking indication of a Tartar origin, his eyes

Climate may have had great influence on the former, but it is difficult to see how it

can have produced the substantial difference which exists in the latter.

The imagery of the Indian, both in his poetry and in his oratory, is oriental;

chastened, and perhaps improved, by the limited range of his practical knowledge.

He draws his metaphors from the clouds, the seasons, the birds, the beasts, and the

In this, perhaps, he does no more than any other energetic and imaginative race would

do, being compelled to set bounds to fancy by experience; but the North American

Indian clothes his ideas in a dress which

is different from that of the African, and is oriental in itself.

His language has the richness and sententious fullness of the Chinese.

He will express a phrase in a word, and he will qualify the meaning of an entire

sentence by a syllable; he will even convey different significations by the simplest

Philologists have said that there are but two or three languages, properly speaking,

among all the numerous tribes which formerly occupied the country that now

They ascribe the known difficulty one people have to understand another to

The writer remembers to have been present at an interview between two chiefs of the

Great Prairies west of the Mississippi, and when an interpreter was in attendance who

The warriors appeared to be on the most friendly terms, and seemingly conversed

much together; yet, according to the account of the interpreter, each was

absolutely ignorant of what the other said.

They were of hostile tribes, brought together by the influence of the American

government; and it is worthy of remark, that a common policy led them both to adopt

They mutually exhorted each other to be of use in the event of the chances of war

throwing either of the parties into the hands of his enemies.

Whatever may be the truth, as respects the root and the genius of the Indian tongues,

it is quite certain they are now so distinct in their words as to possess most

of the disadvantages of strange languages;

hence much of the embarrassment that has arisen in learning their histories, and

most of the uncertainty which exists in their traditions.

Like nations of higher pretensions, the American Indian gives a very different

account of his own tribe or race from that which is given by other people.

He is much addicted to overestimating his own perfections, and to undervaluing those

of his rival or his enemy; a trait which may possibly be thought corroborative of

The whites have assisted greatly in rendering the traditions of the Aborigines

more obscure by their own manner of corrupting names.

Thus, the term used in the title of this book has undergone the changes of

Mahicanni, Mohicans, and Mohegans; the latter being the word commonly used by the

When it is remembered that the Dutch (who first settled New York), the English, and

the French, all gave appellations to the tribes that dwelt within the country which

Indians not only gave different names to their enemies, but frequently to

themselves, the cause of the confusion will be understood.

In these pages, Lenni-Lenape, Lenope, Delawares, Wapanachki, and Mohicans, all

mean the same people, or tribes of the same stock.

The Mengwe, the Maquas, the Mingoes, and the Iroquois, though not all strictly the

same, are identified frequently by the speakers, being politically confederated

Mingo was a term of peculiar reproach, as were Mengwe and Maqua in a less degree.

The Mohicans were the possessors of the country first occupied by the Europeans in

They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable

fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed

verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented

There is sufficient historical truth in the picture to justify the use that has been

In point of fact, the country which is the scene of the following tale has undergone

as little change, since the historical events alluded to had place, as almost any

other district of equal extent within the whole limits of the United States.

There are fashionable and well-attended watering-places at and near the spring

where Hawkeye halted to drink, and roads traverse the forests where he and his

friends were compelled to journey without even a path.

Glen's has a large village; and while William Henry, and even a fortress of later

date, are only to be traced as ruins, there is another village on the shores of the

But, beyond this, the enterprise and energy of a people who have done so much in other

The whole of that wilderness, in which the latter incidents of the legend occurred, is

nearly a wilderness still, though the red man has entirely deserted this part of the

Of all the tribes named in these pages, there exist only a few half-civilized

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