Camp Canadian—Immense herds of buffaloes—Great slaughter of them—Extraordinary sickness of the command, [p. 76].—Suffering from impure water—sickness of the men, [p. 77].—Horned frogs—Curious adventure in catching them, [p. 78].—Death of General Leavenworth and Lieutenant M‘Clure, [p. 78].
Return to Fort Gibson—Severe and fatal sickness at that place—Death of Lieutenant West, [p. 80].—Death of the Prussian Botanist and his servant, [p. 81].—Indian Council at Fort Gibson, [p. 82].—Outfits of trading-parties to the Camanchees—Probable consequences of, [p. 83].—Curious minerals and fossil shells collected and thrown away, [p. 85].—Mountain ridges of fossil shells, of iron and gypsum, [p. 86].—Saltpetre and salt, [p. 86].
Alton, on the Mississippi—Captain Wharton—His sickness at Fort Gibson, [p. 87].—The Author starting alone for St. Louis, a distance of 500 miles across the prairies—His outfit, [p. 88].—The Author and his horse “Charley” encamped on a level prairie, [p. 89], [pl. 184].—Singular freak and attachment of the Author’s horse, [p. 90].—A beautiful valley in the prairies, [p. 91].—An Indian’s estimation of a newspaper, [p. 92].—Riqua’s village of Osages—Meeting Captain Wharton at the Kickapoo prairie, [p. 93].—Difficulty of swimming rivers—Crossing the Osage, [p. 94].—Boonville on the Missouri—Author reaches Alton, and starts for Florida, [p. 95].
Trip to Florida and Texas, and back to St. Louis, [p. 97].—Kickapoos, portraits of, [p. 98], pls. [185], [186].—Weas, portraits of, [p. 99], pls. [187], [188].—Potawatomies, portraits of, [p. 100], pls. [189], [190].—Kaskaskias, portraits of, [p. 100], pls. [191], [192].—Peorias, portraits of, [p. 101], pls. [193], [194].—Piankeshaws, [p. 101], pls. [195], [196].—Delawares, [p. 101], pls. [197], [198].—Moheconneuhs, or Mohegans, [p. 103], pls. [199], [200].—Oneidas, [p. 103], pl. [201].—Tuskaroras, [p. 103], [pl. 202].—Senecas, [p. 104], pls. [203], [204], [205].—Iroquois [p. 106], [pl. 206].
Flatheads, Nez Percés, [p. 108], pls. [207], [208].—Flathead mission across the Rocky Mountains to St. Louis—Mission of the Reverends Messrs. Lee and Spalding beyond the Rocky Mountains, [p. 109].—Chinooks, portraits, [p. 110], pls. [209], [210].—Process of flattening the head—and cradle, [p. 111], [pl. 210½].—Flathead skulls, [p. 111].—Similar custom of Choctaws—Choctaw tradition, [p. 112].—Curious manufactures of the Chinooks—Klick-a-tacks—Chuhaylas, and Na-as Indians, [p. 113], [pl. 210½].—Character and disposition of the Indians on the Columbia, [p. 114].