. Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America for more than five thousand miles [microform] : containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the north-west regions of that vast continent : with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects and fishes peculiar to the country : together with a concise history of the genius, manners and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi and an app
. Three years travels through the interior parts of North-America for more than five thousand miles [microform] : containing an account of the Great Lakes, and all the lakes, islands and rivers, cataracts, mountains, minerals, soil and vegetable productions of the north-west regions of that vast continent : with a description of the birds, beasts, reptiles, insects and fishes peculiar to the country : together with a concise history of the genius, manners and customs of the Indians inhabiting the lands that lie adjacent to the heads and to the westward of the great river Mississippi and an appendix describing the uncultivated parts of America that are the most proper for forming settlements. Indians of North America; Natural history; Indiens; Sciences naturelles. W fgS CAltVER's TRAVELS. Qttff Bfiikt in which he it accomptnled by aU the wvnors. That ceremony it followed with dances, fuch at I have before defaibed; and the whole concluart to thffhil^e power of healing. llotwithftanding this fuperftitious method of proceed- mUi it is very certain that they have acquired a know- ) of many plants and herbs that are dT a medicinal jtj, and whach how to u(e witli great }From ihet time the refplutifm of engaging in a war is pn, W the departure of tie warriors, the nights axt Ifpeot in feftivity, and their ^ys in making the neafc8 the language of mk people well, and who is a giood orator, and fend to U»em by him a belt of wan^um, on which is fj^i- if4 the purport of the embofly in figyrei ths^ every nt^ion is well acquainted with. At the fame time ^e eilities with him a hatchet painted- red* * As foon^as he reaches the camp or village to which li^ ^ed, he acquaints the chief bf^the tribe with the general tenor of his commiffionj, who ^^me^iatelr aK^s a councfl, to which the ambt There >«dng kid the hatchet on.^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and a
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