Transcriber’s Notes

A few minor errors in punctuation and spacing were corrected.

Page [10]: “wore cloth hoods ostenstatiously” changed to “wore cloth hoods ostentatiously”

Page [27]: “Wholesale annihiliation” changed to “Wholesale annihilation”

Page [28]: “instuments of torture” changed to “instruments of torture”

Page [34]: “great linquistic family” changed to “great linguistic family”

Page [68]: “parallelling the Susquehanna” changed to “paralleling the Susquehanna”

Page [123]: “the offer a squaw” changed to “the offer of a squaw”

Page [176]: “sanquinary five-year war” changed to “sanguinary five-year war”