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Early Western Travels
1748-1846
Volume XXIV
Early Western Travels
1748-1846
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best
and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive
of the Aborigines and Social and
Economic Conditions in the Middle
and Far West, during the Period
of Early American Settlement
Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by
Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D.
Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents," "Original
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," "Hennepin's
New Discovery," etc.
Volume XXIV
PART III OF MAXIMILIAN, PRINCE OF WIED'S, TRAVELS IN THE
INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA, 1832-1834
[Illustration]
Cleveland, Ohio
The Arthur H. Clark Company
1906
Copyright 1906, by
The Arthur H. Clark Company
All Rights Reserved
The Lakeside Press
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company
Chicago
CONTENTS OF VOLUME XXIV
[Part III of Maximilian's Travels in the Interior of North America]
CHAPTER XXVIII--Winter Sojourn at Fort Clarke, from
November 8th to the end of 1833 11
CHAPTER XXIX--Continuation of our Winter Residence
at Fort Clarke, till our Departure, from January 1st to
April 18th, 1834 55
CHAPTER XXX--Return from Fort Clarke to the Cantonment
of Leavenworth, from April 18th to May 18th 84
CHAPTER XXXI--Voyage from the Cantonment of Leavenworth
to Portsmouth, on the Mouth of the Ohio River,
from May 18th to June 20th 116
CHAPTER XXXII--Passage of the Ohio Canal and Lake
Erie to the Falls of Niagara, from the 21st to the 30th of
June 146
CHAPTER XXXIII--Return on the Erie Canal and the River
Hudson to New York--Voyage to Europe 177
APPENDIX (combination of German and English editions)--
I--Vocabularies of some of the Tribes of Northwestern
America. Translated for the present edition from the
original German edition (Coblentz, 1839), by _Asa Currier
Tilton_
(a) Introduction 199
(b) Vocabularies: Arikkaras, Assiniboins, Blackfeet,
Chayennes, Crows, Dacota Yanktonans, Dacota
Tetons, Fall Indians, Flatheads, Kickapus, Konsa,
Krih, Kutanä, Mandans, Minnitarris, Musquake,
Ojibuä, Omaha, Otos, Pahni, Puncas, Saukis, Snake,
Wasaji [Osage] 210
(c) Indian Sign Language 300
II--On the Origin of the Otos, Joways, and Missouris; a
tradition communicated by an Old Chief to Major Bean,
the Indian Agent. From the London edition, 1843 313
III--Sale of Land by the Indians--Extract from the published
Contract. From the London edition 315
IV--Treaty of Peace between the American Fur Company
and the Blackfeet. From the London edition 317
V--Meteorological Observations at Fort Union and Fort
Clarke on the Upper Missouri. Summarized from the
original German edition, by _Asa Currier Tilton_ 318
VI--Bird Calendar for the Region of the Mandan Village,
for the Winter of 1833-34. Translated from the original
German edition, by _Asa Currier Tilton_ 320
VII--Catalogus Plantarum in Monte Pocono (North Hampt.,
Pennsylvaniæ), observatarum a L. D. Schweinitz. From
the London edition 323
VIII--Systematic View of the Plants brought back from my
Tour on the Missouri, drawn up by President Nees von
Essenbeck, at Breslau. From the London edition 326
IX--Catalogue of Birds, observed in the months of November,
December, January, and February, at the mouth of
the Wabash. Translated from the original German edition,
by _Asa Currier Tilton_ 345
ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME XXIV
(The following are text cuts in original)
Plan of Minitaree medicine feast 25
Club, with carved head 25
Plan of Mandan hut 37
Mandan, in bull-dance costume 37
Heads of sledge dogs 37
Double rainbow 59
Little Soldier (Tukan Haton), a Sioux chief 59
Plan of Niagara Falls 169
Harpoon for dolphins 169
PART III, AND APPENDIX, OF MAXIMILIAN, PRINCE OF
WIED'S, TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA
The Text, a reprint of chapters xxviii-xxxiii of the London edition,
1843; the Appendix, a combination of the Appendices of the London and
German (Coblentz, 1839) editions.
TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA, IN THE YEARS 1832, 1833, AND
1834
[PART III]