Medicines or mysteries—medicine-bag—origin of the word medicine, [p. 35].—Mode of forming the medicine-bag, [p. 36].—Value of the medicine-bag to the Indian, and materials for their construction, [p. 37], [pl. 18].—Blackfoot doctor or medicine-man—his mode of curing the sick, [p. 39], [pl. 19].—Different offices and importance of medicine-men, [p. 41].
[LETTER—No. 7, Mouth of Yellow Stone.]
Crews and Blackfeet—General character and appearance, [p. 42].—Killing and drying meat, [p. 43], [pl. 22].—Crow lodge or wigwam, [p. 43], [pl. 20].—Striking their tents and encampment moving, [p. 44], [pl. 21].—Mode of dressing and smoking skins, [p. 45].—Crows—Beauty of their dresses—Horse-stealing or capturing—Reasons why they are called rogues and robbers of the first order, &c. [p. 46].
[LETTER—No. 8, Mouth of Yellow Stone.]
Further remarks on the Crows—Extraordinary length of hair, [p. 49].—Peculiarities of the Crow head, and several portraits, [p. 50], pls. [24], [25], [26], [27].—Crow and Blackfeet women—Their modes of dressing and painting, [p. 51].—Differences between the Crow and Blackfoot languages, [p. 51].—Different hands—Different languages, and numbers of the Blackfeet, [p. 52].—Knisteneaux—Assinneboins, and Ojibbeways, [p. 53].—Assinneboins a part of the Sioux—Their mode of boiling meat, [p. 54].—Pipe-dance, [p. 55], [pl. 52].—Wi-jun-jon (a chief) and wife, pls. [28], [29].—His visit to Washington, [p. 56].—Dresses of women and children of the Assinneboins, [p. 57], [pl. 34].—Knisteneaux (or Crees)—character and numbers, and several portraits, [p. 57], pls. [30], [31].—Ojibbeways—Chief and wife, [p. 58], pls. [35], [36].
[LETTER—No. 9, Mouth of Yellow Stone.]
Contemplations of the Great Far West and its customs, [p. 59].—Old acquaintance, [p. 60].—March and effects of civilization, [p. 60].—The “Far West”—The Author in search of it, [p. 62].—Meeting with “Ba’tiste,” a free trapper, [p. 63, 64].
[LETTER—No. 10, Mandan Village, Upper Missouri.]
A strange place—Voyage from Mouth of Yellow Stone down the river to Mandans—Commencement—Leave M‘Kenzie’s Fort, [p. 66].—Assinneboins encamped on the river Wi-jun-jon lecturing on the customs of white people—Mountain-sheep, [p. 67],—War-eagles—Grizzly bears, [p. 68].—Clay bluffs, “brick-kilns,” volcanic remains, [p. 69], pls. [37], [38].—Red pumice stone—A wild stroll—Mountaineer’s sleep, [p. 70].—Grizzly bear and cubs—Courageous attack—Canoe robbed, [p. 71].—Eating our meals on a pile of drift-wood—Encamping in the night—Voluptuous scene of wild flowers, buffalo bush and berries, [p. 72].—Adventure after an elk—War-party discovered, [p. 74].—Magnificent scenery in the “Grand Détour”—Stupendous clay bluffs—Table land, [p. 75], [pl. 39].—Antelope shooting, [p. 76], [pl. 40].—“Grand Dome”—Prairie dogs—Village—Fruitless endeavours to shoot them, [p. 77], [pl. 42].—Pictured bluff and the Three Domes, [p. 78], pls. [43], [44].—Arrival at the Mandan village, [p. 79].