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Early Western Travels

1748-1846

Volume XXIV

Early Western Travels
1748-1846
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement

Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by

Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D.

Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents," "Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," "Hennepin's New Discovery," etc.

Volume XXIV

Part III of Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834

Cleveland, Ohio
The Arthur H. Clark Company
1906

Copyright 1906, by THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The Lakeside Press
R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY
CHICAGO

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXIV
[Part III of Maximilian's Travels in the Interior of North America]

CHAPTER XXVIII—Winter Sojourn at Fort Clarke, from November 8th to the end of 1833[11]
CHAPTER XXIX—Continuation of our Winter Residence at Fort Clarke, till our Departure, from January 1st to April 18th, 1834[55]
CHAPTER XXX—Return from Fort Clarke to the Cantonment of Leavenworth, from April 18th to May 18th[84]
CHAPTER XXXI—Voyage from the Cantonment of Leavenworth to Portsmouth, on the Mouth of the Ohio River, from May 18th to June 20th[116]
CHAPTER XXXII—Passage of the Ohio Canal and Lake Erie to the Falls of Niagara, from the 21st to the 30th of June[146]
CHAPTER XXXIII—Return on the Erie Canal and the River Hudson to New York—Voyage to Europe[177]
APPENDIX (combination of German and English editions)—
I—Vocabularies of some of the Tribes of Northwestern America. Translated for the present edition from the original German edition (Coblentz, 1839), by Asa Currier Tilton
(a) Introduction[199]
(b) Vocabularies: Arikkaras, Assiniboins, Blackfeet, Chayennes, Crows, Dacota Yanktonans, Dacota Tetons, Fall Indians, Flatheads, Kickapus, Konsa, Krih, Kutanä, Mandans, Minnitarris, Musquake, Ojibuä, Omaha, Otos, Pahni, Puncas, Saukis, Snake, Wasaji [Osage][210]
(c) Indian Sign Language[300]
II—On the Origin of the Otos, Joways, and Missouris; a tradition communicated by an Old Chief to Major Bean, the Indian Agent. From the London edition, 1843[313]
III—Sale of Land by the Indians—Extract from the published Contract. From the London edition[315]
IV—Treaty of Peace between the American Fur Company and the Blackfeet. From the London edition[317]
V—Meteorological Observations at Fort Union and Fort Clarke on the Upper Missouri. Summarized from the original German edition, by Asa Currier Tilton[318]
VI—Bird Calendar for the Region of the Mandan Village, for the Winter of 1833-34. Translated from the original German edition, by Asa Currier Tilton[320]
VII—Catalogus Plantarum in Monte Pocono (North Hampt., Pennsylvaniæ), observatarum a L. D. Schweinitz. From the London edition[323]
VIII—Systematic View of the Plants brought back from my Tour on the Missouri, drawn up by President Nees von Essenbeck, at Breslau. From the London edition[326]
IX—Catalogue of Birds, observed in the months of November, December, January, and February, at the mouth of the Wabash. Translated from the original German edition, by Asa Currier Tilton[345]