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INDEX. 



Little rock, notice of, ii. - 312 



missionaries at, ii. • 319 

 Lodge, earthern, described, i. 430 



skin, of the Kaskaias, ii. - 105 

 Long, Maj., his detachment com- 

 mence their march towards 

 Red river, ii. <■ 67 



their privations, ii. 33, 93, 101 

 Long Hair, remarkable instance of 



his maguaniniity, i. - 161 



his austerity and reserve, i. 350 



interview with, i. - 431 



Loss of one of the party, ii. - 149 



Loup fork of the Platte, i. - 432 



passage of, i. 448 



Louisville, arrival at, 1. - 26 



Loutre island, i. - - 73 



prairie, i. - - 76 



Loutre, an Indian, his death, i. 159 



Loutre lick, &c., i. - - 411 



M. 



Madura anrantiaca, ii. - - 158 

 Magnanimity, instance of, i. - 319 

 Magpies, i. - - - 489 

 Malva coccinnea, i. - - 63 

 Manito rocks, i. - - 87 

 Marmot, ii. - - - 28 

 Martynia proposcidea found, na- 

 tive, ii. - - 51 

 Maysville, religious meeting near, i. 20 

 Meal, parched maize, allowance 



of, i. - 487 

 exhausted, ii. 140 

 Medicine stone of the Mandans, i. 276 

 Menard creek, or bayou, ii. - 253 

 Merameg river, visited, i. - 54 

 Meteorological register, ap- 

 pendix XLIII. 

 Miegia macrosperma, ii. - 252 

 Migration of birds, i. - - 197 

 Milk sickness, i. - - 82 

 Miller, Mr. Joseph, noticed, i. 465 

 Mimicry, i. - - - 324 

 Minute Tern, i. - - 32 

 Minnetarees, belief in the resurrec- 

 tion of the bison, i. - 278 

 tradition of their origin, i. 279 

 their idea of heaven, i. 280 

 Mirage, or optical illusion, i. - 419 

 with inverted images, i. 490 

 Mississippi, river, arrival at, i. - 43 

 scenery, i. - 45,50 

 Missouri, arrival at, and its charac- 

 ter, I. - - - 66 

 scenery, i. - "0, 79, 87 

 width and depth of its val- 

 ley, i. - - US 

 upper and lower, i. - 459 

 hibernial, state of, i. - 196 



Missouri Indians, i. > - S40 



destroy a party 

 of Spaniards, i. 340 

 dispersed by the 

 Sauksand Foxes, i. 341 

 Monongahela river, printed Alle- 

 ghany,!. - 13 

 Mont Cerne, ii. - - 264 

 Mounds, natural, ii. - on 

 Muriate of Soda, i. - - 34 

 Mus floridanus described, - 54 

 Mygale avicularia, ii. 157, 254, 259 



N. 



Navigation of the Alleghany and 



Ohio, i. 16 



boats suited to, i. 37 



of the Missouri obstructed 



by rafts, i. - 86 



Negracka, or red fork, ii - 217 



Negroes, their funeral ceremonies, ii. 328 



Nemawhaw river, grand, i. - 141 



little, i. - 142 



Neosho, little, ii - - 220 



Neosho, or Grand river, ii. - 253 



Neshetongo river, ii. - 224 



New B(!urbon, i. - - 48 



Nishnebottona, river and grand 



pass, i. - 142 



Nitrate of lime, i. - - 34 



potash, i. - - 36 



Nodowa river, i. - - 114 



0. 



O'Fallon, Indian agent joins the ex- 

 pedition, i. - 70 

 his speech to the Sauks, i. 222 

 other speeches, i. - 395 



Ohio river, remarks on the scenery 



of its upper portion, i, 19 



below Cincinnatti, i. - 23 

 near its mouth, i. - 36 



mouth of, its importance in 

 geography, i. - 39 



general marks concerning, i. 39 

 remarks on the scenery 

 near its mouth, i. - 42 



Oil, bituminous, i. - - 15 



stone quarry of Washita, ii. - 293 



Olean village, i. - - 16 



Omawhaw Indians, council with 



the, i. - - - 174 



chiefs visit us, i. - 193 



surprise at the properties 



of quicksilver, i. - 194 



predestination, i. - 194 



war party, i. - - 197 



account of the Omawhaws, 200 

 their village and huf<:, i. 200 



