INDEX. 



£iscuit, or bread, allowance of to the 



indiviiiuals ol the party, ii, 49 



Bison, descriptiou of, i, - 470etseq. 



account of, i, - - 480 



crossing tlic Platte, i, - 481 



more afraid of whiles than of 



the Indians, i, - - 482 



some account of, ii, 78, 125, 135, 



204, 207 



Bistineau lake, ii, - - 308 



Black hills, i, - - - 471 



Blowing flies, i, - 116 



ii, - - 135 



Blue earth river, i, - - 134 



Biue water river, ii, - - 316 



Body of a white otficer interred by 



the Indians, i, - - 91 



Boggy river, li, - - 316 



Boiling spring creek, ii, - 35 



Bones of a serpent found in an In- 

 dian grave, i, - - 64 

 Bon Homme creek and village, i, 408 

 Boon, Daniel, aiu;cdoteof, i, - 103 

 Boonvilic and lick, i, - - 89 

 Botanical notes, i, - - 18,54 

 by Dr. Baldwin, i, 44 

 Boy, Pawnee, attending horses, i, 34y 

 Boyer river examined by the party, i, 344 

 Bradbury, John, Botanist, i, - 58 

 Bread exhausted, i, - 4S7 

 Breccia, ii, - - - 25 

 Briar creek, or Skin Bayou, ii, 257 

 Bridges, probability of their con- 

 struciion, across the Ohio 

 and Mississippi, i, - 47 

 Buck eye, or horse chesnut, i, - 22 

 Bufo cogoatas described, ii, - 190 

 Bull pen, source of north fork of the 



Platte, i, - - 464 



C. 



Cacti noticed, ii, - - 19 



Cado chief, his interview with Free- 



man's party, ii, - 311 



Calloway capt., his skirmish with the 



Indians and deatii, i, 76 

 Camancias, remains of their en- 

 campment, and a recent 

 grave, ii, - 116 



Camp Missouri , sickness of the troops 



at, i, - - 195 



Canadian river, north fork of, ii. 81 

 its valley bounded by 



high precipices, ii, 82 

 its nioulli, li, - 161 

 arrival at its source, ii, 84 

 its blufts, ii, - 87 



its water, ii, - 96 



its tributaries, ii, - 99 



Canadian river, width of its bed, ii, 120 

 opinions concerning 

 its source, ii, - 316 

 supposed Rib Rajo 

 of Humboldt, ii, 317 

 remarks on the coun- 

 try, ii, 132, 143, 148, 152 

 little north fork of, ii, 162 

 arrival at its conflu- 

 ence with the Arkan- 

 sa, ii, - 167 



Cane brake, i, - - - 41 



difficulty in passing 

 through, ii, - 168 



Canis nubilis described, i, - 1G9 



Cannon ball creek, i, - 500 



Canoe, skin, mode of constructing, i, 429 

 Cape Girardeau, arrival at, i, - 45 

 reassembling of the 

 party at, ii, - 321 

 account of, ii, - 323 

 departure from, ii, 324 

 Cash river, its mouth a harbour for 



boats, i, - - 38 



Cassis cornutus found in an Indian 



mound, i, - - 64 



Castle rock and creek, ii, - 16, 52 

 Catalpa tree, i, - - 35 



Cattish, i, - - - 142 



Cavaniul mountain, ii, - - 169 



Cave Inn rock described, i, - 32,41 

 Cervus macrotis described, ii, - 88 

 major, ii, - - 89 



verginianus, manner of de- 

 coying, i, - - 103 

 Chains or rocky bars in the Ohio, i, 37 

 in the Mississip- 

 pi, i, - 45, 47 

 Chalk banks, i, - - 38 

 Charaton village and river, i, 97 

 Charbonire, i, - - 70 

 Charcoal included in the argilla- 

 ceous sandstone, ii, - - 80 

 Chattaliooche mountain, ii, - 274 

 Chcnal au Barre, i, - - 102 

 Cherokee Indians, ii, - 262 

 remarks concern- 

 ing, ii, - 268 

 origin of their 

 quarrel with the 

 Osages, ii, - 269 

 their improve- 

 ments, ii, - 271 

 some account of 

 their govern- 

 ment, ii, - 272 

 Chesnut ridge, i, - - 12 

 ChirotPs lumbricoides, i, - 488 

 Ciiicinnatti,i, - - 21,23 

 Climate, remarks on, i, 476,393 

 ii. 115,124,317 



