pp. 75 to 84 he offers an analysis of the Winnebago dialect, as amplifying some theories regarding the origin of the Chippewa tribes. ATWATER (Caleb). A History of the State of Ohio, Natural and Civil, by Caleb Atwater, A. M. Second edition. 8° pp. 407. Cincinnati (1838). 55 That portion of the History which is included between pp. 107 and 160 is AUCHINLECK (G.) A History of the War between Great Britain and the United States of America, during the years 1812, 1813, and 1814, by G. Auchinleck. 8° pp. vii. +408+ iii. Toronto, Published by Maclear & Co., 1855. 56 This book, written by a Canadian, contains many particulars of the employment of Indians by the British Government, and educes evidence to disprove the charge of the barbarous cruelty in the treatment of prisoners by the savages. AURACANIAN INDIANS. Rambles in Chili and life among the Auracanian Indians in 1836, by "Will the Rover." 8° pp. 88. Thomaston (Me.), 1851. 57 The book bears the very legible marks of romance, though certified on the title-page by the publisher to be veritable. AUSS AMERICA das ist auss der Newen Welt. Vnderschildticher Schreiben Extract von den Jaren 1616, 1617, 1618. Was gestalt Acht Patres Societatis vnd zwo audere Ordens personen Von dess Christlichen Glaubens wegen Ihr Blut vergossen. Was auch sonst die Patres Societatis Gott zu Ehrons unnd zu auk breitlung. 4° Two prel. leaves +pp. 1 to 91. Getrucht zu Augsburg, 1620. 58 [From America, that is, from the New World. Extracts of Letters of the years 1616, 1617, 1618. How eight Fathers of the Society of Jesus and two other Members of that Society shed their blood for the Christian Belief. Also what the said Society did more for the Glory of God and the Promulgation (of the Gospel). Printed at Augsburg, 1620.] AUTHENTIC MEMOIRS Of William Augustus Bowles, Esquire, Ambassador From the United Nations of Creeks and Cherokees to the Court of London. 8° Title; To the Public, pp. vi.; text, 79. London, R. Faulder, 1791. 59* The subject of this biographical sketch attracted much attention to himself in England, whither he went to enlist the interposition of the crown in favor of the Creek Indians, over whom he had acquired a sort of chieftainship. He claimed for them the rights of an independent and sovereign nation. Several treatises were printed regarding him and his lucubrations, among others, one attempting to establish from his testimony the existence of a tribe of Indians speaking the Welsh language. The work whose title is above given, is ranked among the rarest works relating to American Aborigines. Colonel Force once said that he had attempted for twenty years to procure a copy without success. Some particulars in the life of Bowles can be found in Haywood's Aboriginal and Civil Histories of Tennessee and White's Historical Collections of Georgia. AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE SEMINOLE WAR. Its Cause, Rise and Progress, and a Minute Detail of the Horrid Massacres of the Whites by the Indians and Negroes in Florida, in the months of December, January, and February, communicated for the press by a gentleman who has spent eleven weeks in Florida near the scene of the Indian depredations and in a situation to collect every important fact relating thereto. 8° pp. 24. Folding Plate. Providence, 1836. AVILA (P. F. Francisco de). 60 Arte de Lengua Mexicana, y breves platicas de los Mysterios de N. Santa Fee Catholica, y otras para exortacion de su obligacion a los Indios. Compuesta por el P. F. Francisco de Avila, Predicador, Cura Ministro por Su Magestad del Pueblo de la Melpan, y Lector del Idioma Mexicana, del Orden de los Menores de N. P. San Francesco. Dedicado al M. R. P. F. Ioseph Pedrasa. [Official Titles, 9 lines, etc.] Con Licencia de los Superiores. En Mexico, por los Heredoros de la Viuda de Miguel dr Ribera Caldero en el Empedradillo, Ano de 1717. Small 4o 12 prel. leaves + 37 numbered leaves. 61 [Art of the Mexican tongue, and short exercises in the mysteries of our Holy Catholic Faith, and others for the exhortation of its duties to the Indians. Composed by the Father Friar Francisco de Avila, preacher, serving curate for his Majesty of the town of M- -, and Reader of the Mexican Idiom, of the Order of Minors of our Father San Francisco. Dedicated to the very Rev. Father Friar, Joseph Predrasa.] AZARA (Felix de). Voyages dans L'Amerique Meridionale, par Don Felix de Azara, Commissaire et Commandant des limites Espagnoles dans le Paraguay, depuis 1781 jusq'en 1801. Contenant la description geographique, politique et civile du Paraguay et de la riviere de La Plata; l'histoire de la decouverte et de la conquete de ces contrees; des details nombreux sur leur histoire naturelle, et sur les peuples sauvages qui les habitent; le recit des moyens employes par les Jesuites pour assujetir et civiliser les indigines, etc., publies d'apres les manuscrits de l'auteur avec une notice sur sa vie et ses ecrits; par C. A. Walckenaer, etc. Accompagnes d'un Atlas de vigt-cinq planches. Paris: Dentu, imprimeur-libraire, 1809. 4 vols. 8°, and 1 vol. atlas, 4o, containing 13 maps and plans, and 12 plates. 62 [Travels in South America, by Don Felix de Azara, from 1781-1801; containing a geographic, political, and civil description of Paraguay and of the River de la Plata. The history of the conquest of these countries; numerous details of their natural history; and of the savage people who inhabit them. With a narration of the means employed by the Jesuits to subject and civilize the Indians, etc.] Of Vol. II., the author devotes chapters x. to xviii., pp. 1-391, to "The Indian Savages." "Means employed by the conquerors and the Jesuits of America to subject the Indians, and the manner in which they governed them." "Notice of all the Tribes, Villages, etc., of the Indians in Paraguay and in Buenos Ayres." History of the Discovery and Conquest of La Plata and of Paraguay." Don Felix de Azara was born at Barbunales, in 1746. He received the appointment of Colonel of Engineers in 1780, and embarked in 1781 as a commissioner on the part of Spain to settle the boundary between the Spanish possessions in Paraguay and the Portuguese territory of Brazil. In this employment he remained for twenty-two years. He was recalled by the King of Spain in 1803; and honored with the appointment of Councillor of the Indies. BACK (Captain). Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835; by Captain Back, R. N., Commander of the Expedition. Illustrated by a Map and Plates. 4° pp. xi. +663+map and 14 plates+3 plates fish. London, John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1836. 63 This very beautiful edition of Captain Back's Journey, is exactly a counterpart, page by page, of the octavo size. It is in fact an impression of the octavo on a quarto page of thick paper, and is therefore a large paper size, of which a few copies were probably taken for presentation. The impressions of the plates are on India paper, and having as well as the text been taken with great care, the whole work is a splendid specimen of typographic art. Captain Back's Narrative is crowded with details of his intercourse with the Crees, Chippewyans, Dog Rib, and Coppermine Indians, upon whom he, as well as Captain Franklin, was obliged to depend in great measure for subsistence during the terrible privations of an Arctic winter. No intelligent comprehension of the character of the savage tribes of the frozen regions of North America can be obtained without reading the narratives of Captains Franklin and Back; both of whose Journals of their overland expeditions are very largely occupied with descriptions of Indian life and peculiarities. BACK (Captain). Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835, by Capt. Back, R. N., Commander of the Expedition. Illustrated by a Map and Plates. 8° pp. 66316 plates and Map. London, John Murray, 1836. 64 BACK (Captain). Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition to the Mouth of the Great Fish River, and along the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in the years 1833, 1834, and 1835, by Capt. Back, R. N., Commander of the Expedition. Illustrated by a Map. 8° Philadelphia, 1836. BACQUEVILLE (de la Potherie). 65 Histoire | de | L'Amerique | Septentrionale | Divisee en quatre Tomes | Tome Premier | Contenant | le Voyage du Fort de Nelson, dans | la Baye d' Hudson, a l'extremite de 1 Ame- | rique. Le premier etablissement des Francois | dans ce vaste pays, la prise dudit Fort de Nelson, la Description du Fleure de Saint Laurent, le gouvernement de Quebec, des trois Rivieres & de Montreal, depuis 1534 | jusqu' a 1701. | Par M. de Bacqueville de la Potherie | né a la Guadaloupe, dans l' Amerique Meridionale Aide Major de la dite Isle. Enriche des Figures. 4 vols. 16° Vol. I. Prel. pp. (xii) +1 to 370+ table pp. (4) +2 maps and 16 plates. Vol. II. Title and pp. 356 +table 7 pp. +1 map and 4 plates. Vol. III. Title, preface, and Terms of the Savages pp. (12)+310+table pp. (6)+5 plates. Vol. IV. Title and pp. 271+table pp. (iv)+2 plates. A Paris, 1753. 66 [History of North America, divided into four volumes. Vol. I., containing the Voyage to Fort Nelson in Hudson's Bay on the northern extremity of America. The first establishment of the French in this vaste country, the capture of the said Fort Nelson, Description of the River St. Lawrence, the Government of Quebec, of the Three Rivers and of Montreal from 1534 to 1701.] The subject of the work is very imperfectly described in the title to the first volume. Each one of the four composing it has a distinct title, as much descriptive of a different purpose as a separate work. To afford a full comprehension of its scope I append a translation of the title of each volume:VOL. II. "History of the Native Allies of New France, their Manners and their Maxims, their Religion, and their interests with all the Nations of the upper Lakes, among which are the Hurons and the Illinois, the alliance made with the French and these people, and all which occurred the most remarkable under Messieurs de Traci de Frontenac, de la Barre and of Denonville." VOL. III. "History of the Iriquois, their Manners, their Maxims, their Customs, their Government, their Interests, with the English their Allies, all the transactions of the war with them from the years 1689 to 1701; their Negotiations, their Embassies for a general Peace with the French, and with the Native Allies of New France." VOL. IV. "History of the Abnaquis Indians, the general Peace in all North America, under the government of the Count Frontenac and the Chevalier de Callieres, during which the Indian Nations residing six hundred leagues from Quebec assembled at Montreal.” De la Potherie's work, it will be seen, is a history of the Indian nations of Canada, being entirely devoted to that subject and the relations of the French with the natives. Much of his work is written from his own observation, and the remainder seems to have been derived from authentic sources, A comparison of De la Potherie's volumes with unquestioned authorities. like Le Clercq and Sagard, does not sustain the criticism of Father Charlevoix copied by Mr. Rich. Most of the twenty-seven plates are illustrative of scenes or peculiarities in Indian life. BALBOA (Miguel Carello). History du Perou par Miguel Carello Balboa. Inedite. Volume XVII. of Ternaux-Compans, Voyages et Relations. Paris, 1840. 67 This History of Peru, never before printed, was written by a gentleman who went to Bogota in 1566, where he resided ten years; then removed to Quito, where he finished his history in 1586, twenty years after he arrived in America. The Manuscript, as found by M. Ternaux, was divided in three books, of which the first two make no mention of America, except some worthless speculations about its being the land of Ophir. In his third book, however, he gives the results of his communications from a learned monk named Juan de Orozco, of Bogota, who had written many treatises on the origin and antiquities of the Indians. The volume is entirely occupied with the history of the Incas, and other 2 Indian nations, prior to the invasion of Pizarro, and closes with the murder, by this tyrant, of Atahualipa. Its value to us is greatly enhanced in its being an independent chronicle, according so often with, and differing so often from, that of Garcilaso de la Vega. Both their agreements and their differences establish the fact of a common source of historic data. BALDWIN (Thomas). Narrative of the Massacre by the Savages of the Wife and Children of Thomas Baldwin, who since the melancholy period of the destruction of his unfortunate family, has dwelt entirely alone, in a hut of his own construction, in the extreme Western part of Kentucky. New York, 1835. 68 Very little of this fugitive chapbook relates to the subject of the massacre by the savages, and that little is worthless; the rest is mere rhapsody and bombast. BALLANTYNE (Robert Michael). Hudson's Bay; or, Every-Day Life in the Wilds of North America, during Six Years' Residence in the Territories of the Hon. Hudson's Bay Company. 12° pp. 298. Boston, 1859. 69 No part of the American Continent has had so many intelligent and well educated observers of Indian traits as the Hudson's Bay Territory. The great Company encouraged the occasional presence and association of a superior employé. Among the considerable number of writers who have served that company, none have produced a more complete, interesting, and evidently faithful narration of the various phases of a Fur Trader's life among the Indians, than Mr. Ballantyne. Crowded as his book is in details of their life, habits, and peculiarities, we feel an unchecked confidence in their truthfulness as we progress in its perusal. BANCROFT (Edward). An Essay on the Natural History of Guiana, in South America. Containing a Description of many Curious Productions in the Animal and Vegetable Systems of that Country. Together with an Account of the Religion, Manners, and Customs of Several Tribes of its Indian Inhabitants [etc. 6 lines]. 8° London, 1769. 70 The especial subject of the author's inquiries regarding the Indians, is the nature and use of the Wourali Poison, with which their weapons are charged. Although a work of some merit, written as it was by an Englishman of learning, it has little value as a narration of personal experience. It is probable, from the entire absence of personal details, that the book was written in England, perhaps by one who had no more than a short visit to Guiana to qualify him for the task. Much the best portion of the work is Chap. iii, occupying 100 pp. of description of the peculiarities of the natives of the country. The subject has however been much better performed by the Missionary, Brett. BARAGA (Rev. F.) A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language, the language spoken by the Chippewa Indians; which is also spoken by the Algonquin, Otawa, and Potawatami Indians, with little difference. For the use of Missionaries and other persons living among the Indians of the above named tribes. By the Rev. Frederick Baraga, Missionary at L'Anse Lake |