INDEX. 



Springs in the red and gray sand 



stones, ii. - - 71 



Spring river, ii. - - 281 



Squirrel, striped and spotted, ii. 174 



Staiileya integrifolia, desc. ii. 17 



Stewart, Mr. Robeit, noticed, i. 465 



Stipa, hygrometric, i. - - 500 



Stinking fork, ii. - - 218 



Strawberry ri*er, ii. - - 281 



St. Louis, arrival at, i. - 55 



notice of, i. - - 56 



St. Charles, arrival at, i. - 70 



St. Charles' river, ii. - 58 



St. Francis' river, ii. - ■< 283 



Swallow, cliff described, ii. - 47 



Sycamoie, i. - - - 23 



Symphona glomerata, i. - 449 



Sylvia celata described, i. - 169 



bifasciata described, i. 170 



Tabauus, or prairie fly, i. - 75 



ii. - 198 



Table lands, ii. - - 12 



Tarkio river, i. - - - 141 

 Tarrarecawaho, his speech to his 



warriors, i. - 352 



Tell-tale sandpiper, i. - - 4 



Tennessee river, i. - - 36 



Tern, black-beaded, i. - - 67 

 Testudo, geographica, its oviposi- 



tion, i. - - 32 



Tetrao obbcurus, described, ii. - 14 

 Ticks, seed, the party annoyed 



by, ii. - 144,266 



described, ii. - 256 



Tikatok, his village, ii. - 272 



character, ii. - 273 



Toad, a new species described, ii, 190 



Tobacco fumes highly relished by 



the Indians, ii. 176 

 Topography, see table of contents, 



vol. ii. cb. 18, 

 Tortures, expiatory, of the Minneta- 



rees, i. - - 276 

 Trap formation, its scenery, ii. 79, 82 

 Travelling, order of observed by the 



party, i. - - 421 



Treaty of peace, ceremonies of, i. SIO 

 Trees iniwedded in the banks of the 



Missouri, i. - - 68 

 Tribes and bands of the Omaw- 



hawb, i. - - 325 



Triton lateralis described, i. - 5 



Tumuli, or Indian mounds, i. - 59 



in Illinois, on the American 



bottom, i. - - 66 



Turkey buzzard, i. - - 4 



Tyrannus verticalis described, ii. 60 



forficatus, ii. - - 224 



Tyawapeti bottom, i. 



U. 



Ulmus alata, ii. 



Ursus horribilis described, ii. 



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204 

 52 



Vaccine virus, accident to, i. - 434 

 unsuccessfully applied, i.439 

 Valour, i. - - 309 



Venus, planet, seen at mid-day, i. 488 

 Verdigris river little, ii. - 220 



arrival at, ii. - 250 

 Vermillion creek, i. - - 602 



Vespertilio novaboracensis et subula- 



tus descril>ed, ii. 65 



Vocabularies of Indian Languages 

 appendix LXIX et seq. 

 Volcanic rocks, ii. - - 86,88 



remarkable ridges of, u. 91 

 appeaiantfs, ii, 327 



Volcano pseudo, subteiranean explo- 

 sion, i. - • 196 



W. 

 Wabash river, i. - - 31 



Warreruza creek, i. - - 1 16 



Washita river, its source, &c. ii. 294 

 its tributaries, ii. 301 



Waters, their colour considered, i. - 10 

 Water, want of, the occasion of un- 

 avoidable filthiness, ii. 141 

 Water of the red sandstone forma- 

 tion, ii. - - 96 

 Wealth, superior, indicated by the 



number of corn cribs, i. 77 



Wharf creek, ii. - - 59 



Wheeling, arrival at, i. - 17 



Whipporwill, i. - - 4 



White river, ii. - - 273 



remarks concerning, ii. 274 

 cut off, ii. - 275 



country of, ii. - 276 



its bed and valley, ii. 278 

 natural growth and pro- 

 ducts, ii. - 279 

 Witticisms, i. - - 309, 330 

 Wolf river, i. - - 114,115 

 Wolves, their ferocity* ii. - 78, 82 

 Wolf, black, i. - - 102 

 ii. - - 157 

 Wood, scarcity of, ii. - - 69 

 Woin)ivooii, species of,ifi. - 475 

 Wren, new, described, ii. - 4 



Yankee, to whom applied, i. 

 Yucca angustifoija, i. 



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