Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . and that source as yet unvisited except by the red manwho describes it, everywhere, as a place of vast importance to the Indians—as given to them by the Great Spirit, for their pipes, and strictly for-bidden to be used for anything else. The source irom whence all these pipes come, is, undoubtedly, somewherebetween this
Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians : with letters and notes written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing ; with 360 engravings, from the author's original paintings . and that source as yet unvisited except by the red manwho describes it, everywhere, as a place of vast importance to the Indians—as given to them by the Great Spirit, for their pipes, and strictly for-bidden to be used for anything else. The source irom whence all these pipes come, is, undoubtedly, somewherebetween this place and the Mississippi River; and as the Indians all speakof it as a great wecZicMte-place, I shall certainly lay my course to it, erelong, and be able to give the world some account of it and its mysteries. The Indians shape out the bowls of these pipes from the solid stone,which is not quite as hard as marble, with nothing but a knife. Thestone which is of a cherry red, admits of a beautiful polish, and theIndian makes the hole in the bowl of the pipe, by drilling into it a hardstick, shaped to the desired size, with a quantity of sharp sand and waterkept constantly in the hole, subjecting him therefore to a very great labourand thfi necessity of much patience-. i^for
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