. Three travels throughout the interior parts of North-America for more then [sic] 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 ... : and a appendix describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements. Indians of North America; Biology; Zoology; Indiens; Biologie; Zoologie. CARVER'S TRAVELS. ^^U\ CHAP T E R V. OF rmER GOVERNMENT, '^c. ILVERY fcparale body of Tmlians is c^ivlded into bands or tribes; which band or tribe
. Three travels throughout the interior parts of North-America for more then [sic] 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 ... : and a appendix describing the uncultivated parts of America, that are the most proper for forming settlements. Indians of North America; Biology; Zoology; Indiens; Biologie; Zoologie. CARVER'S TRAVELS. ^^U\ CHAP T E R V. OF rmER GOVERNMENT, '^c. ILVERY fcparale body of Tmlians is c^ivlded into bands or tribes; which band or tribe fovnui a little community with the nation to which it belong!*,, J^s the nation has feme particular fynibol by which it is diftinguiflied from others, fo each tribe has a badge from which it is denominated ; as that of thg Eagle, the Panther, the Tiger, the Buffalo, &c, ^'c, One band of the Naudowellics is reprcfcnted by u Snake, another a Tortoife, a third a Squirrel, a fouvtli a Wolf, and a fifth a Buffalo. Throughout every nation they particularize themfelves in the fame man- ner, and the mcaneft perfon among them will re- member his lineal defccnt, and dillinguifh himfclf by his refpedlive family. Did not many circumftances tend to confute the fuppofition, I fhould be almofl induced to conclude from this diilin<Slion of tribes, and the particular at- tachment of the Indians to them, that they derive their origin, as feme have afferted, from the Ifraelites. Befides this, every nation diftinguifli themfelves by the manner of conftru£ling their tents or huts. And fo well verfed are all the Indians in this diftind^ior, that though there appears to be no difterence on the niceft obfervation made by an European, yet ihcy will immediately difcover, from the pofition cf a pole left in the ground, what nation has encamped on. the fpot many months before. Every band has a chief who is termed the Great Chief or the chief Warrior ; and who is chofen in confideration of his expe
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