in my "Algonkin Legends" the theory that the
Algonkin Indians went far to the North and there mingled with the
Norsemen of Greenland and Labrador. The man who got the pipe promised to
leave it to me when he died, but he departed from life and never kept his
word. A frequent source of grief to me has been to see objects of great
value, illustrating some point in archaeology, seized as "curiosities" by
ignorant wealthy folk. The most detestable form of this folly is the
buying of _incunabula_, first editions or uncut copies, and keeping them
from publication or reading, and, in short, of worshipping anything, be
it a book or a coin, merely because it is _rare_. Men never expatiate on
_rariora_ in literature or in china, or talk cookery and wines over-much,
without showing themselves prigs. It is not any beauty in the _thing_,
but the delightful sense of their own culture or wealth which they
cultivate. When there is nothing in a thing but mere _rarity_ and cost
to commend it, it is absolutely worthless, as is the learning and
connoisseurship thereupon dependent.

Business concluded, we took a steamboat, and were very sea-sick on Lake
Superior for twenty-four hours. Then we went to the Isle Royale, and saw
the mines, which had been worked even by the ancient Mexicans; also an
immense mass of amethysts. The country here abounds in agates. At
Marquette there was brought on board a single piece of pure virgin copper
from the mine which weighed more than 4,000 pounds. There it was, I
think, that we found our cars waiting, and returned in them to
Philadelphia.

It was at this time that my brother Henry died, and his loss inflicted on
me a terrible mental blow, which went far, subsequently, to bring about a
great crisis in my health. My dear brother was the most remarkable
illustration of the fact that there are men who, by no fault of their
own, and who, despite the utmost honour or integrity, deep intelligence,
good education, and varied talents, are overshadowed all their lives by
sorrow, and meet ill-luck at every turn. He went at sixteen as _employe_
into a Cuban importing house, where he learned Spanish. His principal
failed, and thence he passed to a store in New York, where he worked far
too hard for $600 a year. His successor, who did much less, was
immediately paid $2,500 per annum. Finding that his employer was being
secretly ruined by his partner, he warned the former, but only with the
result of bein