TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

1. The italicized chapter sub-headings from the original text have been indented in this etext version. Other italic words from the original are surrounded by underscores.

2. The following misprints have been corrected: "Balckfeet" corrected to "Blackfeet" (page 12) "speakes" corrected to "speaks" (page 16) "Somtimes" corrected to "Sometimes" (page 53) "de" corrected to "be" (page 53) "trom" corrected to "from" (page 63) "reurn" corrected to "return" (page 63) "or" corrected to "of" (page 63) "an" corrected to "and" (page 68)

3. Other than the corrections listed above, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained.