The upper bands of the Sioux in their pronunciation substitute the letter I for the d. Min-ne-t-r, or Gros ventre Language, man-ce-ch-t-et — Bis knife British, bo-sh-it-to-tchr-shu-pesha — the men who bring black cloth French, bo-she — the crow people Crow Indians, another band, ehha-tza — the people of leaves Snake Indians, m-buc-sho-rochpan-ga Flat-headed Indians, i-too-ha-pe Gros ventre of the Fort prairie, a Assinniboin Indians, e-t4ns-ke-pase-ta-qua Shienne Indians, a-wis-she-tanqua, or it-anst;-p6-:je Sauteur Indians, ha-hat-tong Mandan Indians, a-rach-bo-cu Sioux Indians, it-ans-ke Les Noire Indians, at-t-shu-peshd-loh-pm-ga The Red Shield Chief, one of the principal chiefs, e-tam-ina-gehiss-sha The Borgne or One Eye, grand chief, a remarkable man, he was killed by the Red Shield, a few years since, ka-ko-a-kis VOCABULARY OF INDIAN LANGUAGES. Ixxxv river that carries canoes Little Missouri river, -mS,nti-c&- \] — the river of yellow rocks Physician, mkt-zk-mk-ho-pk Village, a-ma-teh Praine, -mon-su-kdt Eagle, ich-pro-hich Tomahawk, weep-s-lin-ga Green, thiu-te-ge Little wolf, bot-sas Mountain, avo-ca-ve Kill, tk-hk Die, tas Scalp, .-rm-pa-tsak-ke He or she, n Bison cow, me-te-ya A thick forest of small trees, bera-she-e-p6 Fight, r-U Drink, be-di-h( Steal, ma--shan-re Talk, di-dk Gunpowder, mr-d-z-ba Nineteen, a-p-no-was-sap-pii Twenty, no-o-pah-pe-ra-gis Forty, to-pah--pe-ra-gas Grand Pawnees, tch-w Pawnee Republicans, /.-kk-kk or ket-ka-kesh Tappage band, p-tou-we-ri Not, bujtje Tool Robe, (the republican grand chief,) sha-re-a-diksh-taw-we Fourteen, liih-ko-ke-t Fifteen, she-oksh-ta-ro-k-tl. less one) Twenty-one, petouo-s-ko Thirty, Mk-she-r-we-toti-o Thirty-one, luksherewetouo-asko Forty-one, petkoshooraro-as-ko Fifty, petkoshoorarolokshere Sixty, toLi-wet-ra-ro Seventy, touwetrarolokshere Seventy -one, touwetrarolokshere askolokshere Eighty, shke-tiksh-ta-ro Eighty -one, shketikshtaroasko Ninety, shketikshtarolokshere Ninety-one, shketikshtaroaskolokshere One hundred, sh-koksh-ti-ro One thousand, petkoshoorarolokshere-tsa-e-ksh The name of one individual of the Pawnee Loups is " The maker of God." Ixxxvi VOCABULARY OF INDIAN LANGUAGES. The two following Vocabularies were taken down by Major Long during his tour on the upper Mississippi in the year 1817. Winnebago, Puant, or Nip- Naudowessies of Carver and American or > Canoe or boat n ah -pur House or lodge VOCABULARY OF INDIAN LANGUAGES. Ixxxvii Winnebago, Puant, or Nip- Naudowessies of Carver and sin -te -pah No, or nothing Oar, or paddle wich-i-hin-chah, old man Pond or lake Town or vil- } Tobacco ne-nah, or neh Ixxxviii VOCABULARY OF INDIAN LANGUAGES. Winnebago, Puant, or Nip- Naudowessies of Carver and Allegbany muutitains, some of their American character, estimation of by Arkansa, arrival at one of its tributaries, ii, - - - 15 arrival and encampment at, remarks on its valley near the party commence their descent of, ii, - - - 60 country on, below Belle their attempt to take one of Astronomical records, Appendix ix et seq. Attack by the Indians ou a block Vol. II. N his death and character, ferocity of when wounded, detached with a party to his detachment to descend the Arkansa, ii, 173 account of their movements, ii, - 172 et seq. Belle Fontaine, arrival at, &c., i, - 67 Belle Point, description of, &c., ii, 260 Capt. Bell's party arrive Bijeau, his account of the Rocky Bijeau and Ledoux, join the expedition, i, - 450 their character, usefulness, and separation from £iscuit, or bread, allowance of to the more afraid of whiles than of Body of a white otficer interred by Bones of a serpent found in an Indian grave, i, - - 64 Boyer river examined by the party, i, 344 Bridges, probability of their construciion, across the Ohio Bull pen, source of north fork of the Cado chief, his interview with Freeman's party, ii, - 311 Calloway capt., his skirmish with the Camancias, remains of their encampment, and a recent Camp Missouri , sickness of the troops its valley bounded by Canadian river, width of its bed, ii, 120 opinions concerning supposed Rib Rajo remarks on the country, ii, 132, 143, 148, 152 arrival at its confluence with the Arkansa, ii, - 167 difficulty in passing Canoe, skin, mode of constructing, i, 429 reassembling of the Cash river, its mouth a harbour for Cassis cornutus found in an Indian verginianus, manner of decoying, i, - - 103 Charcoal included in the argillaceous sandstone, ii, - - 80 origin of their quarrel with the some account of Climate, general remarks concerning, ii, - 320etseq. Conglomerates in tlie Ozark mountains, ii, - - 10,299 Country north of the Missouri, journey through, i, - 406 to 423 at the base of the Rocky between the Cherokees and beggar, i, - - id. Dangers and diflSculties suggested Deserters, Nuwland, Myers, and Bernard; their theft, and the priv&tioDS to which Captain Bell's party were Dogs, sufferings and death, ii, 213, 221 Dougherty, John, and others, overtake the steam boat remarkable instance of his knowledge of his adventures with Earthquakes felt at Cape Girardeau, ii, - - 325 instance of its behaviour when Elk Horn river, passage of, in a skin outfit and departure of the Excursion from Point Pleasant, on the Arkansa, to the Hot Springs Exhalations, luminous, account of, i, 412 Fields, Lieutenant, with fifteen men Formica, a species of, used as food Freeman, account of his expedition Frenchoian, singular hardihood of psaltria and frontalis described, ii, . . 40 Fulgur perversus found in an Indian Geographical land-marks, want of, ii, 128 Geology, see tab. con. vol. ii. ch. XIX. Girl, letan presents a horse to Major Glen, Mr., his trading house on the remarks on the country camp creek, grand encampment, i, - - 502 Grapes, abundant and delicious, nature indicates the proper Graves of the reputed Lilliputians, i, Greenstone, amygdaloidal and porpbyritic, ii, - - 81 Grouse, apparently a new species described, ii, - - 14 Hop, common, on the Rocky Mountains, ii. - - 8 Hornbleud in connection with the granite of the Rocky Mountains, ii. - - 5 Horses, and mules belonging to the whole number belonging to Hot Springs of the Washita noticed, and remarks on the circumjacent country, ii. 288 et seq. their individual temperature, locality, and comparative discharge, ii. 291 Human feet, impressions in limestone, i, - 57 Illinois riverof Arkansa, arrival at, ii. 254 Indians, detailed account of, i 167 to 403 wandering, trade with the met by Captain Bell's detachment, ii. - - 174 estimation of inferior animals, i. - - 320 interpreters and guides, difficulty in obtaining, i. - 443 Isle Au Vacbe, see Cow Island. James, Dr. £., joins the Expedition, i. - - 404 his excursion from the camp on tlie Platte to the Rocky Journey from St. Louis lo Engineer Cantonment — account of the Kakoakis, a Minnetaree chief, ravishes and kills a squaw, i. 309 Kaskaias, party of met by Major their diseases, habits, and deportment, ii. - 113 Kaskaskias river, a town at its council, their fondness for tobacco, ii. 176 their horsemanship, appearance, dress, their grand chief subordinate chief of, Konzas river, arrival at. &c.,i. - lOB remarks on the country deputation proceeds to Isle au description of the village, dwellings, and furniture, i. - 120 food, morle of cooking, and culinary apparatus, i. - 122 go\ernment, marriage ceremony, i. - - - 123 mourning for the dead, polygamy, ties of relationship and friendship, and denominations physical description, clothing, occupations of the women, ablutions, chastity, courtezans, i. 128 sodomy, mode of plucking out the party exchange a horse with Lampyris, different modes of corruscating, 1. - - 7$ Lands, public, provision for schools, Le Mine river, discovery of the body of an officerburied near, extensive diggings near Long, Maj., his detachment commence their march towards Long Hair, remarkable instance of Martynia proposcidea found, native, ii. - - 51 Maysville, religious meeting near, i. 20 Meal, parched maize, allowance Meteorological register, appendix XLIII. Minnetarees, belief in the resurrection of the bison, i. - 278 Missouri, arrival at, and its character, I. - - - 66 width and depth of its valley, i. - - US destroy a party dispersed by the Monongahela river, printed Alleghany,!. - 13 Mounds, natural, ii. - on Navigation of the Alleghany and of the Missouri obstructed Negroes, their funeral ceremonies, ii. 328 Nishnebottona, river and grand O'Fallon, Indian agent joins the expedition, i. - 70 Ohio river, remarks on the scenery mouth of, its importance in remarks on the scenery Omawhaw Indians, council with surprise at the properties Omaivhaw, occupations, preparations departure on a bunting excursion, i. - - 205 ceremony on discovering a surrounding a iierd of bisons, i. - - 208 dissection and preparation different preparations of return by the village and proceed on to hunt the manner of preparing the matrimony and the married state, i. - 230 monsters, abortion, infant boys, their propitiation of the VVahconda — disobedience, i. - - 240 youug man, his home till love — maternal love, anecdote, i. - - 244 medical and surgical knowledge, i. - - 262 astronomical and geographic'dl knowledge, i. - 288 culinary, horticultural and battle with the Pawnee battle with the Pawnee republicans, i. - - 300 Orders, Major Long's, detailing the duties of the individuals of the party at the commencement of the expedition, i. 1 relative to the duties of the party during the winter cantonment, i. - 166 issued at the departure of the expedition from Engineer Cantonment, i. 423 number of children of a party of, attacked by the their nation, village, and Oto Indians, ceremony of marking a Out-fit and departure from Pittsburgli, i. - - 4 Owl, Coquiinbo described, ii. 36, 37, 200 Ozaric mountains, remarks concerning, li. - - 2'iG account of soil, minerals, Pawnee Indians, their attack on Mr. village destroyed by VVasacaruja, i. - - 306 mode of receiving distinguished strangers, i. 355, 365 battle with the mountain Pawnee villages, arrival at, i. 435 etseq. situation and surrounding accidental separation from the Pigeon, apparently new, described, ii. 10 species of, on the Rocky Mountains, ii. - - 34 Pinus flexilis, ii. described, ii, - fruit eaten, ii. Pipe stone, Indian, i. Plantago attenuata, i. Plants of the Rocky Mountains a Cherokee village on the Arkansa, ii. - - 268 Poison Spring, near the Hot Springs Prairies, their origin and character, i. 404 Precious metals, fabulous accounts Prickly pear, (cactus ferox and Provisions, seasonable supply of, i. 462 Capt Bell's party in great difficulty in ascending its Red Eirer of Louisiana, account of, from Freeman's MS. journal, ii. - 302 et seq. remariib on the tributaries Rivers of the Ozark mountains, speculation couceriiiug, ii. 281, 294 or trace from Charaton to Rock, remarkable, in Canadian river, li. - - 162 view of from the summit of Sabbath observed by the party as a Saddle, Indian, speedy construction OD a brauch of Le Mine rivet, i. - - 100 Salt, native, procured by an Ankara, i. - - 449 Vol. II. at the base of the Rocky Say, Mr., detached with a party at detached with a party from detached with a party to explore the country i-etween fort Osage and the Pawnee account of his journey to the his party plundered by a Pawnee war party, i. - 132 Settlers, first, their character, ii. 279 Shawnee Indian's head elevated on Shell of ihe Omawhaws, object of Short Mountain creek and settlement, ii. - - 266 Sickness of the exploring party, and Solanum triflorum and heterandrum, i. - - 453 Spaniards, their measures to intercept Fieeniau's party, ii. 312 Springs in the red and gray sand Tarrarecawaho, his speech to his Testudo, geographica, its oviposition, i. - - 32 Ticks, seed, the party annoyed Tobacco fumes highly relished by Topography, see table of contents, Tortures, expiatory, of the Minnetarees, i. - - 276 Travelling, order of observed by the Treaty of peace, ceremonies of, i. SIO Trees iniwedded in the banks of the Tribes and bands of the Omawhawb, i. - - 325 in Illinois, on the American Tyawapeti bottom, i. Ulmus alata, ii. Ursus horribilis described, ii. Vespertilio novaboracensis et subulatus descril>ed, ii. 65 Vocabularies of Indian Languages appendix LXIX et seq. Volcano pseudo, subteiranean explosion, i. - 196 Waters, their colour considered, i. - 10 Water, want of, the occasion of unavoidable filthiness, ii. 141 Water of the red sandstone formation, ii. - - 96 Wealth, superior, indicated by the