[14] Tobacco.
[15] The Spaniards.
[16] The partridge, a common figure with the Indians to express cowardice.
[17] Northern lights, aurora borealis.
[18] The milky way.
[19] The name given by the Indians to the bellows.
[20] Put the hatchet under the bedstead, an Indian figure, signifying that peace will not last long.
[21] A night's encampment is a halt of one year at a place.
[22] The Shoshonees, a tribe living west of the Rocky Mountains, to indicate the sincerity of their professions, pull off their mocassins before they smoke in the pipe of peace, an action which imprecates on themselves the misery of going barefoot for ever, if they are faithless to their words.
[23] "Great council fire" means all the land or territory possessed by the nation.