Travels Through the Interior Parts of North-America in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768

author, and sold, 1778 - 543 Seiten

INTRODUCTION	i

1	xvi

his Travels	17

Upper Town of the Ottagaumies	50

Lake Pepin	54

Description of a remarkable Cave	60

Description of the River St Pierre	66

Sources of the Four great Rivers of North	76

Treatment of their Prisoners	335

The Origin of their felling Slaves	346

Of their Manner of making Peace c	351

Manner in which they conduct a Treaty	358

CHAP XII	367

The Form of Marriage among the Nau	373

CHAP	380

CHAP XIV	389

Account of a violent Thunderftorm	85

Description of Lake Erie	166

1	177

CHAP II	216

with a Plate	228

CHAP III	235

Women	245

Of their Government	255

Their usual Food	262

Of their Dances	266

An uncommon Admiſſion into a Society	272

The Dance of the Indians on the Banks	279

Their Manner of hunting the Bear	286

Their Manner of declaring War	307

A Detail of the Maſſacre at Fort William	313

Acuteness and Alacrity of the Indians	327

CHAP XV	398

A Specimen of their Funeral Harangues	399

A concife Character of the Indians	408

Of their Language Hieroglyphicks c	414

Vocabulary of the Chipéway Language	420

CHAP XVIII	441

BIRDS	466

The Blue	472

CHAP	494

The Chouk Berry	504

The Fever Bush The Cranberry Bush	510

Skunk Cabbage or Poke	518

APPEN	526

The Probability of the interior Parts	527

Differtation on the Discovery of a North	539

Titel	Travels Through the Interior Parts of North-America in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768
Autoren	Jonathan Carver, John Coakley Lettsom
Herausgeber	John Coakley Lettsom
Ausgabe	3
Verlag	author, and sold, 1778
Original von	University of Michigan
Digitalisiert	3. Sept. 2009
Länge	543 Seiten

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