Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768

A

• Acosta de, a Spanish Writer, 184
• Adair’s opinion of the peopling of America, 206
• Adair’s opinion respecting the Mosaic rites of the Indians, 386
• Adoration, Indian, 67
• Adultery, punishment of, 375
• Age revered, 243
• Algonkins, 138
• Allanipegon river, 137
• America, peopled from different countries, 182, 184, 210
• Anthony St. falls of, 66, 69
• Anthropophagi, 196, 303, 304
• Apathy of the Indians, 240
• Arithmetic, ignorance of, 254
• Arts, little cultivated, 249
• Ash tree, 491
• —— —— prickly, 393, 508
• Asrahcootans, a band of Indians, 80
• Assinipoils, a tribe of Indians, 76, 80, 112
• Astronomy of the Indians, 253

B

• Ball, an Indian game, 311
• Bass or white wood, 499
• Beans, 526
• Bears, American, 442
• —— grease used by the Indians, 443
• —— method of hunting, 286
• Beards of the Indians, 225
• Beavers, history of, 457
• —— method of hunting, 289, 290
• Beech nut, 501
• Bees, 491
• Birds of America, 466
• Bleeding of the jugular by the Carcajou, 450
  • vide Carcajou
• Blood, human, drank, 304, 319
• —— root, 516
• Blue clay, used as a mark of peace, 102
• Braddock, general, cause of the defeat of, 311
• Bread, a species of, 26
• —— unknown to the Nawdowessies, 262
• Bones of the Nawdowessies preserved, 65, 84
• —— carried for interment, 84, 86, 401
• Bourbon lake, 107
• —— river, source of, 76, 115
• Bowl, game of the Indians, 365, 366
• Bugs of America, 491, 493
• Buffaloes, largest in America, 56, 103, 110
• —— method of hunting of, 287
• —— history of, 445
• Burying place of the Nawdowessies, 65
• Bustard river, 176
• Butter or oil nut, 500
• Button wood, 499

C

• Cadot’s Fort, 131, 141
• Calumet, vide pipe of peace
• Canada, maps of, imperfect, intr. iii
• Carcajou of America, 450
• —— opens the jugular vein of its prey, 450
• Carp, 478
• Carrabou, history of, 449
• Carthaginians, supposed to have visited America, 190
• Carver Captain, escape of, at the massacre of Fort William Henry, 321
• Carver’s intrepidity, 52, 81, 96, 280, 320
• —— devotion of, 68, 178
• —— intention in his travels, 178
• —— river, 74
• Cassa Tate, 296
• Cataraqui river, 171
• Cat-head fish or pout, 171
• Cat-fish, 478
• Cat-mint, 520
• Cave, remarkable one, 63, 84
• Charlevoix Pierre de, French historian, 192, 199, 220
• Chegomegan Point of Lake Superior, 138
• Cherry-tree, 504
• Chichicoué beans, use of, 385, 394
• Children, management of, in infancy, 236
• —— tenderness to, 378
• Chipéway Indians, 60, 96, 104, 115, 268, 352
• —— —— gratitude of, 63, 357
• —— —— language of, 420
• Chipéway Indians, universality of, 414, 416
• —— river, 102
• Choak-berry, 512
• Chongousceton Indians, 80
• Chub, 478
• Clays, variously coloured, 101
• Cohnawaghans or Mohawks of Canada, 173
• Coldness of the water of Lake Superior, 153
• Colour of the Indians, 223
• Cookery, Indian, 233
• Copper ore in America, 139
• Crab-tree, 503
• Cranberry-bush, 511
• Crane, American, 469
• Croix St. Riviere, 105, 106
• Cross, no object of religious worship, 387
• Cruelty to captives, 339, 341
• Cuzco, great road, 191

D

• Daggers of the Nawdowessies, 296
• Dance, remarkable, near Lake Pepin, 279
• Dances of the Indians, 266
• Dead Indians how treated, 398
• —— —— oration on, 399, 400
• Death, cruelty in inflicting, 338, 340
• Death-cries, 334
• Death-song, 334, 337
• Deer, plentiful, 110, 114
• —— manner of hunting them, 288
• —— some account of, 446
• Defiance to war, 307
• Delzel, an enterprizing officer, 162
• Detroit, straights of, and river, 150
• Devils-bit, 515
• Dii Penates, 278, 309
• Diseases of the Indians, 389
• Dishes of the Indians, 234
• Divorce of the Indians, 371
• Dogs, flesh of, a feast of the Indians, 278, 304
• —— of America, 445
• Dress of the Indians, 219, 226
• Drink of the Indians, 263
• Dropsy, treatment of, 391
• Ducks, American, 469

E

• Eagles, American, 466
• —— abound near the falls of St. Anthony, 71
• Ears of the Indians ornamented, 227
• Elder shrub, 508
• Elks, large in America, 103, 447
• —— method of hunting them, 288
• Enemies, implacable hatred of, 238
• Erie Lake, 167
• Etchelaugon Lake, 176

F

• Falls of St. Anthony, 66, 69
• —— —— —— —— picturesque view of, 70
• Farinaceous and leguminous roots, 522
• Fasts of the Indians, 285
• Feasts, Indian, 262
• Feu-de-joie of the Ottawaws, 23
• Fever-bush, 511
• Fidelity of the Indians, 372
• Fishes of America, 476
• Fish-hawk, American, 468
• Flints used as chirurgical instruments, 394
• Flowers, American, 52
• Food of the Indians, 263
• Fort William Henry, massacre of, 313
• Fortitude of the Indians, 411
• Fox river, 38, 40
• —— —— abounds with wild fowl, 39
• Foxes of America, 444
• Francis St. river of, 72
• —— —— Indians, 173
• Fruit trees, 502
• Funeral ceremonies, 402, 405
• —— speech, 399, 406, 407
• Furs, beaver, 110, 111
• Future state, ideas respecting, 383, 404

G

• Games, Indian, 363
• Gaming among the Indians, 244, 363
• Garcia Gregorio, a Spanish historian, 183
• Gargit or skoke, 518
• Geography of the Indians, 84, 252
• Ginsang, 514
• Gladwyn, major, 155
• —— —— faithfulness of the servant of, 156
• Goddard’s river, 105, 132
• —— —— transparency of, 132
• Gold, plenty of, 118
• Gold thread, 515
• Goose river, 72
• Grape, a species of, 136
• Green snake, 486
• Green-bay, near Lake Michigan, 21
• Greenland, borders on America, 209
• Grollon, father, a relation from, 193
• Government of the Indians, 255
• Guella Francis, 195

H

• Hairs plucked out by the Indians, 225
• Hatchet red, emblem of war, 362
• Head dress of the Indians, 230
• Hemlock-tree, 499
• Hennepin, father, 69, 219
• Herbs, American, 516
• Hereditary succession, 259
• Hesperides, supposed to be the Antilles, 183
• Hickory, 502
• Hieroglyphicks, Indian, 64, 252, 337, 417
• —— anecdotes respecting the, 418
• Hispaniola, said to have been visited by the Tyrian fleet, 192
• Hissing snake, 167, 486
• Hontan, Baron de, 220
• Hornn George de, a Dutch writer, 189
• Horned bug, 493
• Hospitality of the Indians, 25, 81, 83, 265
• Houses, Indian, 231
• Hudson’s Bay, company of, 110, 112
• Humming-bird, 475
• Hunting among the Indians, 283
• Huron Lake, 144, 150
• Huron Indians, 151
• Hurricane, effects of one, 103
• Huts of the Indians, 231

I

• Ice, forming an intercourse between America and Europe, 188
• Indian, interview, 61
• —— banditti, 52
• —— corn or maize, 522
• —— wild, 520
• Indolence of the Indians, 243, 244
• Initiation into the friendly society of the spirit, 271
• Ink like rain, 153
• Insects of America, 490
• Intrenchment, remains of one, 56, 57
• Intrigue of the Indians, 376, 377
• Iroondocks, a tribe of the Iroquois Indians, or five Mohawk nations, 173
• Iroquois Lakes, 173
• —— Indians, or five Mohawk nations, 173
• Island of Mauropas, 135
• Isle Royal in Lake Superior, 134

J

• Jacobs, lieutenant, 164
• Jay, blue, 472
• Jaun, Riviere, 51
• Jealousy rarely known, 245
• Jews, supposed to have discovered America, 207
• John St., Lake of, 177

K

• Kamtschatka borders on America, 194, 214
• Killistinoes, a tribe of Indians, 76, 80, 112, 130
• —— priest, anecdote of, 123 to 128
• —— king of, described, 131
• King bird, 475

L

• La Bay, fort of, 21
• Lac la Pluye, 114
• —— du Bois, 113
• Laconia, province of, 174
• Laët John de, a Flemish writer, 184, 186
• Lakes of America misrepresented, intr. iv.
• Language of the Indians, 414
• Lightning-bug, 491
• Liquid amber-tree, 505
• Litters, Indian, 330
• Lizards, American, 488
• Long black snake, 485
• Loon, the American, 470

M

• Magic, initiation into, 272
• Mahahs, trade of at Fort la Reine, 109
• Maize, or Indian-corn, 522
• Manataulin, island in lake Merow, 144
• Mandrakes, suggestions about, 118
• Manikouagone lake, near the black river, 176
• Manitou, or Kitchi Manitou, 381, 388
• Manitous, 309
• Manners of the Indians, 235
• Maple, 496
• Marble river, 101
• Marie St. falls of, 142, 148
• Marriage ceremonies, 367, 369, 373
• —— dance, 265
• Martin, history of, 455
• Massacre at Fort William Henry, 313, 327
• Mawhaws, a band of Indians, 80
• Mawtawbauntowahs, 60
• —— anecdote of a party of, 60
• Medicine of the Indians, 305, 385, 391
• Melon, 526
• Memory of the Indians, retentive, 242
• Menomonies take Fort la Bay, 22
• Menies, ceremony concerning the, 236
• Messorie river, 75, 118
• Mexican refugees, 119
• —— —— ideas of, 117
• Michigan lake, navigable to Greenbay, 26
• —— —— description of, 28, 140
• Michillimackinac, fort of, 18, 137, 149
• —— —— taken by stratagem, 19
• Michipicooton river, 137
• Midwives unknown among the Indians, 235
• Mink, American, 465
• Missisauges, an Indian tribe, 171
• Mississippi river, 56, 66, 72, 102
• —— —— source of, 76
• Mistassin lake on Rupert’s river, 175
• Mohawks river, 172
• Mohawks, nation of, 173
• Monro Colonel, death of, 314, 325
• Montcalm General, cruelty of, 320, 326
• —— —— death of, 326
• Months and moons of the Indians, 251
• Moose-deer, 448
• —— wood, 508
• Morand Captain, anecdote of, 40
• Moraez Emanuel de, a Portuguese writer, 188
• Moschettoe country, 106
• Mountain in the river, 56
• —— red, a place of trade and amity, 99
• —— shining, 118, 121
• Mourning, ceremonies of, 403, 407
• Mulberry-tree, 503
• Musquash, or musk-rat, 455
• Myrtle wax-tree, 510

N

• Natural history of America, 441
• Nawdowessie Indians, 59, 61, 80, 268, 271
• —— —— anecdote of a party of, 61
• —— —— friendly disposition of, 62
• —— —— burying-place of, 65
• —— —— language of, 416
• —— —— vocabulary of, 433
• —— —— song of, 440
• Nehogatawonahs, 60
• Niagara, falls of, 169
• —— fort of, 169, 170
• Night-hawk, history of the, 466
• Nipegon river, 157
• Nipising lake, 175
• Nut-trees, 500

O

• Oaks, American, 495
• Oil-nut, 500
• Oniada lake, 172
• —— Indians, a tribe of the Iroquois, or five Mohawk nations, 173
• Onondagoes, a tribe of the Iroquois, 173
• Ontario lake, 170
• —— —— country surrounding, 172
• Oregon river, 66
• Origin of the Americans, 181 to 219
• Oswego river, 171
• —— bass-fish, 171
• Ottagaumies, 48, 50, 352, 357
• Ottawaw lakes, 106, 175
• Otter skins, employed as manitous, 309
• —— history of, 464
• Ouis Consin river, 45
• Ouinipique river, 108
• Oviedo, a celebrated Spanish writer, 183
• Owl of America, 469

P

• Paint of the Indians, 101, 227, 231
• Papenouagane lake, 176
• Partridges, American, 471
• Parturition, easy, 235
• —— how promoted, 396
• Pawwaw, or black dance, 270
• Peace, manner of making, 351, 358, 360
• Pecan-nut, 501
• Peopling of America, vide America, 181 to 219
• Pepin lake, 54, 95
• —— rich scenery near it, 55
• Persons of the Indians, 219, 223
• Pertibi lake, 176
• Petticoats, Indian, 229
• Phœnicians, said to have visited America, 190, 191
• Physicians of the Indians, 384, 391, 395
• Pierre St. Riviere, 65, 75
• —— —— —— source of, 84
• Pine-tree, 496
• Pipe or Calumate dance, 268
• —— of peace, 281, 358
• Pipes Indian, where procured, 101
• Plants of America, 512
• Platter, a game of the Indians, 365, 366
• Pleurisy, treatment of, 390
• Plumb-tree, 526
• Plymouth company, grant to, 174
• Polygamy of the Indians, 369
• Pontiac, a celebrated Indian warrior, 19
• —— surprizes Michillimackinac, 20
• —— further account of, 153
• —— stratagems and catastrophe of, 153 to 166
• Poor Robin’s plantain, 518
• Porcupine, history of, 453
• Portage grand, 106
• Pots Indian, manufactory of, 233
• Prairies les Chiens, 50, 93
• —— —— —— picturesque description around, 100
• Prairies les Chiens, place of trade and general amity, 99
• Prayer of an Ottowaw chief, 24
• Prickly-ash, in the venereal disease, 393, 508
• Priest of the Killistinoes, 123, 384
• —— anecdote of, 125
• —— of the Indians, 384
• Prisoners, cruel treatment of, 330, 331, 336
• —— grace to, 343, 344
• —— never exchanged, 345
• Property, equality of, 247, 248
• Pumpkin, 526

Q

• Queen of the Winnebagoes, 33

R

• Racoon, history of, 454
• Rainy lake, 114
• Rattle snake, anecdote of one, 43
• —— —— frequent, 167
• —— —— history of, 479
• —— —— bite of, antidotes to, 482
• —— —— plantain, 482, 517
• Red wood smoked with tobacco, 31
• —— marble river, 75
• —— mountain, rendezvous for trade and general amity, 99
• Red bird, 475
• Reine la Fort, of, 109
• Religion of the Indians, 380
• Revenge of the Indians, 298, 413
• Rice, wild, 523
• Rink-snake, 487
• Road of war, 103
• Rock Liverwort, 518
• Robertson Dr. his opinion on the peopling of America, 217, 218
• —— his misrepresentation, 224
• Rogers, Major, 163
• Roots and plants, 512
• Rum river, 72
• Rupert’s river, 174