FOOTNOTES
[Footnote 1]: A gossiping, chatting, or drinking place.
[Footnote 2]: The mastiffs in Virginia were trained to worry figures dressed as Indians, as well as being always taken out in any foray or chase after either a band of them or an individual, and the antipathy between these dogs and the savages was always very marked.
[Footnote 3]: Unfortunately, such was the class of ministers who originally went out to the American colonies (they generally being outcasts from their own country) that, in this instance, Roderick St. Amande was not only speaking the truth but also representing very accurately the common feeling of the Indian tribes towards the colonial clergyman.
[Footnote 4]: The incident of the Indian woman's mercy is not fictitious.
[Footnote 5]: Indians taken prisoners by the colonists were sometimes sold into slavery in Canada or the West Indies, where they generally died soon.
[Footnote 6]: So called from the poles smeared with blood which were erected before the Seminoles' tents when on the warpath. The French settlers also termed them "Bâtons Rouges," whence the name of the old capital of Louisiana.