Account of the destruction of the Mandans, [p. 257].—Author’s reasons for believing them to have perpetuated the remains of the Welsh Colony established by Prince Madoc.
Vocabularies of several different Indian languages, shewing their dissimilarity, [p. 262].
Comparison of the Indians’ original and secondary character, [p. 266].
LETTERS AND NOTES
ON THE
NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS.
LETTER—No. 32.
FORT LEAVENWORTH, LOWER MISSOURI.
The readers, I presume, will have felt some anxiety for me and the fate of my little craft, after the close of my last Letter; and I have the very great satisfaction of announcing to them that we escaped snags and sawyers, and every other danger, and arrived here safe from the Upper Missouri, where my last letters were dated. We, (that is, Ba’tiste, Bogard and I,) are comfortably quartered for awhile, in the barracks of this hospitable Cantonment, which is now the extreme Western military post on the frontier, and under the command of Colonel Davenport, a gentleman of great urbanity of manners, with a Roman head and a Grecian heart, restrained and tempered by the charms of an American lady, who has elegantly pioneered the graces of civilized refinements into these uncivilized regions.