“The Indians speak their own language.”
“A pappoose is an Indian baby while it is carried in the cradle.”
“A prairie bluff is a hill that is covered with grass.”
“The Rocky Mountains are in America, between New York and the Pacific Ocean, and not in the Indies at all.”
“A snag is a large tree that is lying in the river, its roots fast in the mud at the bottom, and its trunk at the top, pointing down the stream.”
“Sawyers are not alligators.”
“An alligator is a sort of crocodile.”
“The Chesapeake didn’t take the Shannon, it was the Shannon that took the Chesapeake.”
“The Americans are white, the same colour exactly as the English, and speak the same language, only they speak it a great deal better, in general.”
“A stump is the but-end and roots of a tree standing in the ground after the tree is chopped down.”