ACUGNA (C. de'.) Voyages and Discoveries in South-America. The First up the River of Amazons to Quito in Peru, and back again to Brazil, perform'd at the Command of the King of Spain. By Christopher D'Acugna. The Second up the River of Plata, and thence by Land to the Mines of Potosi. By Mons. Acarete. The Third from Cayenne into Guiana, in Search of the Lake of Parina; reputed the richest Place in the World. By M. Grillet and Bechamel. Done into English from the Originals, being the only Accounts of those Parts hitherto extant. The whole illustrated with Notes and Maps. 8° pp. viii. 190+ 2d title and pp. 79+ 3d title and pp. ii. +68+2 maps. London, 1698. Chapters xxvi. to xliii. of Acugna's Relation, and almost all of that of Fathers Grillet and Bechamel are devoted to descriptions of the peculiarities of the Indian tribes they encountered. Their narratives possess a greater interest from being made by the first Europeans who traversed these regions, and penetrated to the territories of the Indian nations, the Arragoues and Nouragones.

ADAIR (James).

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The History of the American Indians; particularly those nations adjoining to the Mississippi, East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia. Containing an account of their Origin, Language, Manners, Religious and Civil Customs, Laws, Form of Government, Punishments, Conduct in War and Domestic Life, their Habits, Diet, Agriculture, Manufactures, Diseases, and Method of Cure, and other Particulars sufficient to render it A Complete Indian System [etc. 10 lines.] By James Adair, a Trader with the Indians, and resident of their country for forty years. 4° pp. x. +464. Map. London, 1775.

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Although it cannot be claimed for this author that he ranked first in priority of time, his name is first on our alphabetical register of a great number of writers whose imagination has been struck by the astonishing coincidence of many particulars of the customs and religious rites of some of the American Nations with those of the Jews. The relations of an intelligent observer (as this Indian trader seems to have been), for so long a period as forty years, of the peculiarities of the Southern Indians, among whom he resided for that period, is not without great value; although we should have reason to hold it in still greater esteem, had the author cherished no favorite dogma to establish, or detested any which he wished to destroy.

ADAMS ( ).

Speech of Mr. Adams of Mississippi, on the Bill to remove the Indians West of the Mississippi. Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April, 1830. 8° pp. 31. Washington, printed by Duff Green, 1830.

ADAMS (Amos).

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A Concise, Historical View of the Difficulties, Hardships, and Perils which attended the Planting and progressive Improvements of New-England, with A particular Account of its Long

and Destructive Wars, Expensive Expeditions, &c. By Amos Adams, A. M. Pastor of the First Church of Roxbury. [Motto 6 lines.] Boston, printed. London, reprinted for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1770. 8° Half title and title 2 leaves + pp. 1 to 68.

ADELUNG (J. C. and VATER, J. S).

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Mithradetes oder allgemeine Sprach enkunde mit dem Vater Unser als Sprachprobe in beynahe funfhundert Sprachen und Mundarten von Johann Christoph Adelung Hofrafth und Ober-Bibliothekar zu Dresden. Mit Benützung einiger Papieredesselben fortgesetzt, und aus zum Theil ganz neuen oder wenig bekannten Hulfsmitteln bearbeitet von Dr. Johann Severin Vater. Dritter Theil. Erste Abtheilung. Berlin, 1812. 5 vols numbered 4— Vol. III. in two parts. 8°. 14 [Mithridates, or general Linguistics, with the Lord's Prayer as Proof in nearly 500 Languages and Dialects by J. C. Adelung, Aulic Counsellor and Chief Librarian at Dresden. Continued with the Use of his Papers and some quite unknown Sources by J. S. Vater.]

This work is the result of such a vast amount of research and learning as to perfectly appall the mind of any person who in forming a fair acquaintance with the literature of two or three languages, has felt that he had accomplished something. It has Grammatical Analyses or at least Vocabularies of most of the languages of the world. More than one fourth of the work is devoted to the Aboriginal languages of America. Pages 389 to 708 of Vol. III. Part I., and the whole of Part II. pp. 474, are occupied with the examination of the languages spoken by the Indians of North and South America. The dialects of more than two hundred nations are represented by some fragments of vocabularies.

ADVENTURES

Of Hunters and Travellers and Narratives of Border Warfare. By an Old Hunter. 12° pp. 308. Philadelphia, Theodore

Bliss & Co., n. d. (1852.)

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This is the most meagre collection of commonplace tales, and perfectly worthless, for all purposes except a child's story-book. AFFAIRS

4° pp. 12. Albany, J. Mun

At Fort Chartres, 1768, 1781. 4° pp. 12. sell, 78 State Street, 1864.

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The letters of which this work consists, were written by an English officer at Fort Chartres on the Mississippi, just after the close of Pontiac's War, and owe their principal interest to their portrayal of the condition of the country when that wonderful chieftain's heroic effort had failed, and he himself had perished under the assassin's knife.

ALASCO.

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An Indian Tale. Two Cantos, with other Poems. for the author by J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1857. 17 141 pp. of verse without a note.

ALBACH (James R.)

Annals of the West, embracing a Concise Account of Principal Events which have occurred in the Western States and Territories from the Discovery of the Mississippi Valley to the Year

Eighteen Hundred and Fifty. Compiled from the most authentic sources, and published by James R. Albach. 818.

St. Louis, 1852.

8° pp.

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Two previous editions of this collection of incidents in Western warfare, were assigned on the title-pages to different authors. The first was accredited to J. M. Peck, and the second to J. H. Perkins. Albach was the publisher of both. The taste of the public for the work seems to have survived the editors, as the publisher and legal proprietor of the work published a third edition as revised and corrected. Upon the title-page of this he left no other name than his own. It is a great collection of details of frontier warfare; but contains little material that is new, or indeed not published in a hundred forms, yet it is much esteemed as a history of Western Settlement.

ALDAMA (D. Joseph Augustin).

Arte de la Lengua Mexicana. Dispuesto por D. Joseph Augustin de Aldáma y Guevara, Presbytero de el Arzobispado de Mexico [engraved ornament]. En La Imprenta nueva de la Bibliotheca Me-xicana. En frente de el Convento de San Augustin. Ano de 1754. 16° pp. Engraved folding sheet, with verses in Mexican.

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[Art of the Mexican Tongue. Arranged by Don Joseph Augustin de Aldama y Guevara, Presbyter of the Archbishoprick of Mexico. In the new printing-office of the Biblioteca Mexicana. In front of the Convent of San Augustin, year 1754.]

ALDEN (Rev. Timothy).

An Account of Sundry Missions performed among the Senecas and Munsees; in a Series of Letters. With an Appendix. By Rev. Timothy Alden, President of Alleghany College. 24° Half title, portrait, and pp. 180. New York, printed by J. Seymour, 1827.

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Although purporting to be only a narration of the pious labors of an Indian Missionary, yet this little volume contains many valuable historical and biographical sketches, particularly one of Cornplanter. From this eminent Chief and Warrior the author derived some very interesting particulars of Indian History, more especially of the Seneca Tribe. A short vocabulary of the dialect of that nation is given in the Appendix.

ALLEN (A. J.)

Ten Years in Oregon. Travels and Adventures of Doctor E. White and Lady, West of the Rocky Mountains, with Incidents of Two Sea Voyages via Sandwich Islands around Cape Horn. Containing also a brief History of the Missions and Settlement of the Provisional Government, Number and Customs of the Indians, Incidents Witnessed whilst Traversing and Residing in the Territory, Description of the Soil, Production, and Climate. Compiled by Miss A. J. Allen. 12° pp. 430.

1850.

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Thrilling Adventures, Travels and Explorations of Doctor Elijah White among the Rocky Mountains and in the Far West. [etc. 3 lines.] Containing also a Brief History of the Missions. and Settlement of the Country, Origin of the Provisional Gov

ernments of the Western Territories, Number and Customs of the Indians, Incidents Witnessed while Traversing and Residing in the Territories, Description of the Soil, Production, and Climate. Compiled by Miss A. J. Allen. 8° pp. 430. New York, 1859.

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This and the preceding work entitled Ten Years in Oregon are identical. They purport to be and doubtless are the veritable relations of an extraordinary mission, partaking of both a religious and a political character. Dr. White was a Presbyterian Missionary to the wilds of Oregon, who developed a remarkable aptitude for organization of border communities into regular civic bodies. These traits were not less notably exhibited by his dealings with the Indians; among whom some of his adventures are little less than marvelous.

ALLEN (Charles).

Report on the Stockbridge Indians, in answer to a "Memorial of Darius Charles and others of the Stockbridge Tribe of Indians." Made to the Legislature of Massachusetts, January 18, 1870. 8° pp. 23. Boston, 1870.

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This Report contains a statement of the various sales of land made by the Stockbridge tribe of Indians, under the authority of the State, the consideration for the conveyance, and some interesting historical information not hitherto known. Some particulars relating to the Dutch traders among them, who opposed their conversion to Christianity; and of the Missions of Sargent, Williams, and Edwards are related. The Report has a more considerable interest as a historical treatise than most of those of its kind. ALLEN (L. L.)

A Thrilling Sketch of the Life of the distinguished Chief Okah Tubbee, alias William Chubbee, son of the Head Chief Mosholeh Tubbee, of the Choctaw Nation of Indians. By Rev. R. L. Allen. 12° pp. 43. New York, 1843.

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This is the first part of a narrative which was intended to be completed in several numbers, but which is not known to have survived the first. Another edition of the same date was printed at Springfield in the same year with additional particulars. See Tubbee.

ALLEN (Paul).

See Lewis and Clarke.

ALLEN (Wilkes).

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The History of Chelmsford, from its origin in 1653, to the year 1820, together with an Historical Sketch of the Church and Biographical Notices of the Four First Pastors. To which is added A Memoir of the Pawtucket Tribe of Indians, with a large Appendix. By Wilkes Allen, A. M., Pastor of the Church and Society in Chelmsford. Boards, uncut. 8° pp. 192. Haverhill, printed by P. N. Green, 1820.

ALLEN (William).

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The History of Norridgewock, Comprising Memorials of the Aboriginal Inhabitants and Jesuit Missionaries, Hardships of the Pioneers, Biographical Notices of the Early Settlers, and Ecclesiastical Sketches, by William Allen, Norridgewock. 12° 252 pp. Published by Edward J. Peet, 1849.

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ALSOP (George).

A Character of the Province of Maryland Described in four distinct parts. Also a small Treatise on the wild and naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Maryland, their Customs, Manners, Absurdities, and Religion; together with a Collection of Historical Letters. By George Alsop. A New Edition, with an Introduction and Copious Historical Notes. By John Gilmary Shea. 8° pp. 125. Portrait and Map. New York, Wm. Gowans, 1869.

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This volume is a reprint of the very rare work printed in London 1666, with the same Title. The description of the Susquehanock Indians, although meagre, is not without value, as a monument of their existence. It occupies pp. 71 to 81 of the Volume. The notes, however, form a very important part of its real value as they are the product of one of the most learned scholars on the subject of Indian history. They bestow upon the reprint a much greater intrinsic value than even the rare original possesses.

AMERICAN PIONEER (The).

A Monthly Periodical devoted to the objects of the Logan Historical Society; or to collecting and publishing Sketches relative to the Early Settlement and Successive Improvement of the Country. 2 vols. 8° Cincinnati, O.; edited and published by John S. Williams, 1844. R. P. Burks, printer.

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This judicious collection of documents and material relating to the Border Settlements of the West, was published in twenty-two numbers, commencing in January 1842, and terminating with October 1843. The title-page of Vol. I. bears date 1844, while that of the second is dated 1843.

Vol. I. consists of twelve monthly numbers having a total of 448 pp. with 24 illustrations, of which ten are full pages with reverse blank. Vol. II. consists of ten monthly numbers having a total of 480 pp. with nineteen illustrations, eleven of which are full paged with reverse blank. The great mass of historic material in these two volumes is composed of Journals of Campaigns against the Indians, Narratives of Captivity, Incidents of Border Warfare, Biographical Sketches of Frontiersmen, Indian Warriors, and White Scouts. Everything relating to the Aborigines finds in these volumes a place which are in effect, a great storehouse of incidents, and historical data regarding them.

AMERICAN STATE PAPERS.

(Class II. Indian Affairs.) [Half Title.] Documents Legislative and Executive of the Congress of the United States, from the First Session of the First to the Third Session of the Thirteenth Congress inclusive, commencing March 3, 1789, and ending March 3, 1815. Selected and edited under the authority of Congress. By Walter Lourie and Mathew St. Clair Clarke. Folio. Two vols. pp. 864 each and Index lxxxiv. Washington, 1832.

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Vols. of the State Papers contain an immense mass of details of the official relations of the U. S. Government with the Indians, and are of great value in their history.

ANDERSON (Mr.)

The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson, containing his Strange Varieties of Fortune in Europe and