M
- Magic, initiation into, [272]
- Mahahs, trade of at Fort la Reine, [109]
- Maize, or Indian-corn, [522]
- Manataulin, island in lake Merow, [144]
- Mandrakes, suggestions about, [118]
- Manikouagone lake, near the black river, [176]
- Manitou, or Kitchi Manitou, [381], [388]
- Manitous, [309]
- Manners of the Indians, [235]
- Maple, [496]
- Marble river, [101]
- Marie St. falls of, [142], [148]
- Marriage ceremonies, [367], [369], [373]
- —— dance, [265]
- Martin, history of, [455]
- Massacre at Fort William Henry, [313], [327]
- Mawhaws, a band of Indians, [80]
- Mawtawbauntowahs, [60]
- —— anecdote of a party of, [60]
- Medicine of the Indians, [305], [385], [391]
- Melon, [526]
- Memory of the Indians, retentive, [242]
- Menomonies take Fort la Bay, [22]
- Menies, ceremony concerning the, [236]
- Messorie river, [75], [118]
- Mexican refugees, [119]
- —— —— ideas of, [117]
- Michigan lake, navigable to Greenbay, [26]
- —— —— description of, [28], [140]
- Michillimackinac, fort of, [18], [137], [149]
- —— —— taken by stratagem, [19]
- Michipicooton river, [137]
- Midwives unknown among the Indians, [235]
- Mink, American, [465]
- Missisauges, an Indian tribe, [171]
- Mississippi river, [56], [66], [72], [102]
- —— —— source of, [76]
- Mistassin lake on Rupert’s river, [175]
- Mohawks river, [172]
- Mohawks, nation of, [173]
- Monro Colonel, death of, [314], [325]
- Montcalm General, cruelty of, [320], [326]
- —— —— death of, [326]
- Months and moons of the Indians, [251]
- Moose-deer, [448]
- —— wood, [508]
- Morand Captain, anecdote of, [40]
- Moraez Emanuel de, a Portuguese writer, [188]
- Moschettoe country, [106]
- Mountain in the river, [56]
- —— red, a place of trade and amity, [99]
- —— shining, [118], [121]
- Mourning, ceremonies of, [403], [407]
- Mulberry-tree, [503]
- Musquash, or musk-rat, [455]
- Myrtle wax-tree, [510]
N
- Natural history of America, [441]
- Nawdowessie Indians, [59], [61], [80], [268], [271]
- —— —— anecdote of a party of, [61]
- —— —— friendly disposition of, [62]
- —— —— burying-place of, [65]
- —— —— language of, [416]
- —— —— vocabulary of, [433]
- —— —— song of, [440]
- Nehogatawonahs, [60]
- Niagara, falls of, [169]
- —— fort of, [169], [170]
- Night-hawk, history of the, [466]
- Nipegon river, [157]
- Nipising lake, [175]
- Nut-trees, [500]
O
- Oaks, American, [495]
- Oil-nut, [500]
- Oniada lake, [172]
- —— Indians, a tribe of the Iroquois, or five Mohawk nations, [173]
- Onondagoes, a tribe of the Iroquois, [173]
- Ontario lake, [170]
- —— —— country surrounding, [172]
- Oregon river, [66]
- Origin of the Americans, [181] to [219]
- Oswego river, [171]
- —— bass-fish, [171]
- Ottagaumies, [48], [50], [352], [357]
- Ottawaw lakes, [106], [175]
- Otter skins, employed as manitous, [309]
- —— history of, [464]
- Ouis Consin river, [45]
- Ouinipique river, [108]
- Oviedo, a celebrated Spanish writer, [183]
- Owl of America, [469]
P
- Paint of the Indians, [101], [227], [231]
- Papenouagane lake, [176]
- Partridges, American, [471]
- Parturition, easy, [235]
- —— how promoted, [396]
- Pawwaw, or black dance, [270]
- Peace, manner of making, [351], [358], [360]
- Pecan-nut, [501]
- Peopling of America, vide America, [181] to [219]
- Pepin lake, [54], [95]
- —— rich scenery near it, [55]
- Persons of the Indians, [219], [223]
- Pertibi lake, [176]
- Petticoats, Indian, [229]
- Phœnicians, said to have visited America, [190], [191]
- Physicians of the Indians, [384], [391], [395]
- Pierre St. Riviere, [65], [75]
- —— —— —— source of, [84]
- Pine-tree, [496]
- Pipe or Calumate dance, [268]
- —— of peace, [281], [358]
- Pipes Indian, where procured, [101]
- Plants of America, [512]
- Platter, a game of the Indians, [365], [366]
- Pleurisy, treatment of, [390]
- Plumb-tree, [526]
- Plymouth company, grant to, [174]
- Polygamy of the Indians, [369]
- Pontiac, a celebrated Indian warrior, [19]
- —— surprizes Michillimackinac, [20]
- —— further account of, [153]
- —— stratagems and catastrophe of, [153 to 166]
- Poor Robin’s plantain, [518]
- Porcupine, history of, [453]
- Portage grand, [106]
- Pots Indian, manufactory of, [233]
- Prairies les Chiens, [50], [93]
- —— —— —— picturesque description around, [100]
- Prairies les Chiens, place of trade and general amity, [99]
- Prayer of an Ottowaw chief, [24]
- Prickly-ash, in the venereal disease, [393], [508]
- Priest of the Killistinoes, [123], [384]
- —— anecdote of, [125]
- —— of the Indians, [384]
- Prisoners, cruel treatment of, [330], [331], [336]
- —— grace to, [343], [344]
- —— never exchanged, [345]
- Property, equality of, [247], [248]
- Pumpkin, [526]
Q
- Queen of the Winnebagoes, [33]