BIGLOW (William).

History of the Town of Natick, Mass., from the days of the Apostolic Eliot, MDCL., to the present time, MDCCCXXX. By William Biglow. 8° pp. 87. Boston, published by Marsh, Capen, & Lyon, 1830.

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This local history contains many notices of the Aborigines, and incidents of their life and manners.

BIGOT (Vincent Pere).

Relation De ce Qui s'est passe de plus remarqvable dans la Mission des Abnaquis a l'Acadie, l'annee 1701. Par le Pere Vincent Bigot de la Compagnie de Jesus. 4° A Manate de la Presse Cramoisy de Jean-Marie Shea, 1858.

129 Relation of the most remarkable events which transpired in the Abnaquis Mission of Acadie, in the year 1701. By the Rev. Father Vincent Bigot of the Company of Jesus.]

Father Vincent Bigot, a Frenchman of the Society of Jesus, was a missionary among the Indians of Canada. This letter is dated as having been written from a village of the Abnaquis in Acadie. He is not noticed in the Bibliotheque of the Fathers Backer, which only cites the name and relations of Father Jacques Bigot, who sent relations of the Missions of the Abnaquis to his Superior at Quebec, in 1684, 1685, and 1702, showing that he served as a missionary at least eighteen years. He is the author of the three following Relations.

Mr. John Gilmary Shea, of New York, to whom we owe these excellent contributions to our literature, has printed a series extending to twenty-three Relations. The edition of each work was limited to one hundred copies, which have been so much sought after that it is very difficult to obtain a complete set. In Europe the estimation of the Relations, and of Mr. Shea's series of Indian Linguistics, is much greater than in this country. No. 4, Shea's Jesuit Relations.

BIGOT (Jacques R. P.)

Relation De Ce Qui s'est passe de plvs remarkable dans la Mission Abnaquise de Saint Joseph de Sillery et dans l'Establissment de la Nouvelle Mission de Saint Francois de Sales l'annee 1684. Par le R. P. Jacques Bigot de la Compagnie de Jesus. 4° pp. 61. A Manate de la Presse Cramoisy de JeanMarie Shea. 1857.

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[Relation of the most remarkable events which transpired in the Abnaquis Mission of Saint Joseph of Sillery and in the Establishment of the New Mission of Saint Francis of Sales, in the year 1701. By the Rev. Father Vincent Bigot, of the Company of Jesus.]

No. 7, Shea's Jesuit Relations.

BIGOT (Jacques R. Pere).

Relation de ce qui s'est passe de plus remarquable Dans La Mission Abnaquise de Saint Joseph de Sillery et de Saint François de Sales l'année, 1685. Par le R. Pere Jacques Bigot de la Compagnie de Jesus. 4° A Manate de la Presse Cramoisy de Jean-Marie Shea, 1858.

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[Relation of the most remarkable events which took place in the Abnaquis Mission of Saint Joseph of Sillery, and of Saint Francis of Sales, in the year 1685. By the Rev. Father Jacques Bigot, of the Society of Jesus.] No. 6, Shea's Jesuit Relations.

BIGOT (Pere Jacques).

Relation de la Mission Abnaquisse de St. François de Sales l'année 1702. Par le Pere Jacquise Bigot De la Compagnie de Jesus. pp. 26 (8°) Nouvelle-York. Presse Cramoisy de JeanMarie Shea, 1865.

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[Relation of the Abnaquis Mission of Saint Francis de Sales in the year 1702. By the Father Jacques Bigot, of the Society of Jesus.]

No. 23, Shea's Jesuit Relations.

BIGSBY (John J.).

The Shoe and Canoe, or pictures of travel in the Canadas, illu'strative of their scenery and of colonial life with facts and opinions on emigration, state policy, and other points of public interest. With numerous Plates and Maps. By John J. Bigsby, M. D. In two volumes. pp. 352, 346. London, 1850.

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The second volume contains the narrative of a tour through the wilds of Canada which border the upper Great Lakes, and affords us some accounts of the recent condition of the Aborigines inhabiting them. Some of the plates (which are fine steel engravings) are illustrative of scenes he witnessed in Indian life.

BILLAINE (Louis).

Receuil de divers Voyages faits en Afrique et l'Amerique qui n'ont esti encore publiez; Contenant L'Origine Les Moeurs, les Coutumes & les Commerce des Habitans de ces deux Parties du Monde. Avec des Traitez curieux touchant la Haute Ethyopie, le debordment du Nil, la mer Rouge, et le Preté-Jean. Le tout enrichi de Figures & de Cartes Geographiques qui servent a l'intelligence des choses contennes en ce volume. 4° A Paris, 1674. 16 prel. pp. Histoire des Barbades, pp. +Relation du Nil, pp. 262 +9 maps and plates. Description de l'Empire du Pretre-Jean, pp. 1 to 35. Relation d' Afrique, pp. 1. to 23. Relation de l' Origine, Moeurs, Coustumes, Religion, Guerres, et Voyages des Caraibes, Sauvages des ilses Antilles de l'Amerique Faite par le Sieur de la Borde Employe a la Conversion des Caraibes, estant avec le R. P. Simon, Jesuite; Et tiree du Cabinet de Monsieur Blondel. Three plates in 12 compartments, pp. 1 to 40. Relation de la Guiane, 41 to 49. Des de la Jamaique, map and 1 to 27. Reld des Barbades, 29 to 45. Colonies Angloises, Map +47 to 81.

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[Collection of several Voyages made to Africa and America which have never before been published. Containing the Origin, the Manners, the Customs, and the Commerce of the Natives of these two parts of the World. With curious treatises concerning Upper Ethiopia, the Mouth of the Nile, the Red Sea, and Prester John. The whole embellished with Plates and Maps. Fifth Relation, - Relation of the Origin, Manners, Customs, Religion, Wars, and Travels of the Caribs, native Savages of the Antilles in America, made by Father de la Borde, a Missionary to the Caribs with the Jesuit Father Simon. With Plates from drawings of the cabinet of Mons. Blondel.] These Plates are each divided into four compartments, representing some of the manufactures, weapons, utensils, or habitations of the Caribs. Father La Borde's Relation is valuable as the narration of an intelligent observer of

the habits and peculiarities of a people who have long since passed away. He was careful, he says, to record nothing which he had not himself observed, or which the character and intelligence of his savage informant did not entitle to perfect credence. His Relation has never been published, as far as my investigation has reached, in any other form.

BILSON (B.)

The Hunters of Kentucky; or the Trials and Toils of Traders and Trappers during an Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, New Mexico, and California. 8° pp. 100. New York, W. H. Graham, 1847.

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This work is a reproduction of Pattie's narrative, which the penury of the thieving writer's imagination has not empowered him to clothe with new language, or interleave with new incidents. The air of veracity, which every page of Pattie's interesting narrative possesses was in consequence transferred to the stolen sheets of Bilson, and long perplexed me by the clearness of statement, and the unmistakable flavor of truthfulness which pervaded a work that brought no voucher for its reality. BISHOP (Harriet E.).

Floral Home; or First Years of Minnesota. Early Sketches, Later Settlements, and Further Developments. By Harriet E. Bishop. 12° pp. 342. New York and Chicago, 1857.

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Under this romantic and unpromising title the author has given her personal experiences of aboriginal life.

BLACKBIRD (A. J.).

Education of Indian Youth. Letter of Rev. Samuel Bissel, and appeal of A. J. Blackbird, a Chippewa Chief. 16° pp. 15. Philadelphia, William F. Geddes, printer, 1856.

BLACK HAWK.

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Life of Ma-ka-tar-me-she-kia-kia or Black Hawk embracing the Tradition of his nation - Indian Wars in which he has been engaged - Cause of joining the British in their late war with America and its history. Description of the Rock River Village.Manners and Customs Encroachments by the Whites contrary to treaty. Removal from his village in 1831, With an Account of the Cause and general History of the Late War, his Surrender and Confinement at Jefferson Barracks and Travels Through the United States, Dictated by Himself. J. B. Patterson of Rock Island Editor and Proprietor. Portrait. 16° pp. 155. Boston, 1845.

BLAKE (Alex. V.).

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Anecdotes of the American Indians. 16° pp. 252. Hartford,

1850.

BLATCHFORD (Samuel).

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An Address delivered to the Oneida Indians, September 24, 1810. By Samuel Blatchford, D. D., together with the Reply by Christian, a Chief of said Nation. 8° pp. 11. Albany, 1810. 140 BLEEKER (Capt. Leonard).

The Order Book of Capt. Leonard Bleeker, Major of Brigade in the early part of the Expedition under James Clinton,

against the Indian Settlements of Western New York, in the Campaign of 1779. Edited by Franklin B. Hough. 4° New

York, Jos. Sabin, 1865. BLEECKER. The Same. Sabin, 1865.

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Foolscap 4o pp. 138. New York, Jos.

Two hundred copies printed.

BLUNT (Joseph).

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Historical Sketch of the Formation of the Confederacy, particularly with reference to the provincial Limits and the Jurisdiction of the General Government over Indian Tribes and the public Territory. 8° pp. 116. New York 1852. 143

This is a very careful consideration of the tenure by which the United States acquired a title to the lands once occupied or claimed by the Indians. Mr. Blunt analyzes in a most judicious and impartial manner, the complex rights of the savage and the civilized claimants; more especially of those by which the State of New York assumes proprietorship of the lands once held by the Six Nations, and of the States of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, in those of the Creeks, Choctaws, and Cherokees.

BOGART (W. H.).

Daniel Boone and the Hunters of Kentucky. 12° pp. 464. New York, 1864. 144

A popular collection of the often repeated stories of frontier life and Indian warfare, veritable enough, but neither better or worse told than in a hundred other forms.

BOISTHIBAULT (M. Doublet de).

Les Voeux des Hurons et des Abnaquis, A Notre-Dame de Chartres. Publies pour la premiere fois' d'Apres les manuscripts des archives d'Eure-et-Loire. Avec les lettres des missionaires catholiques au Canada, une introduction et des notes, par M. Doublet de Boisthibault. Chartres, Noury-Cognard, libraire. 12o pp. 83, and folding plate. Philadelphia, John Pennington & Son. 1857.

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[The Vows of the Hurons and the Abnaquis to Our Lady of Chartres. Published for the first time from the MS. in the Archives of d'Eure-et-Loire, with the letters of the Catholic Missionaries in Canada, an introduction and notes, by M. Doublet de Boisthibault.]

The Vows of the Indians are reproduced only in Latin and French, although they were written and registered in Abnaquis. The neglect to preserve this fragment of the language of the Abnaquis, renders this document comparatively valueless. The relations of the Jesuit Missionaries accompanying it are interesting, and add to our stock of historical data.

BOLLAERT (William).

Antiquarian, Ethnological and other Researches in New Granada, Equador, Peru, and Chile, with Observations on the Pre-Incarial, Incarial and other Monuments of Peruvian Nations. By William Bollaert; with plates. 8° pp. 279+17 full page plates. London, 1860.

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Mr. Bollaert is the author of several treatises on ethnological subjects, printed in the Anthropological Transactions of Europe, and brings to the consideration of his subject a rare combination of learning, ability, and zeal. He twice visited and personally examined the monuments of Incarial

grandeur in Peru, and, besides the facts obtained during his tours in that country, his book is a cyclopedia of the records of South American Antiquities. Vocabularies of several Indian dialects are given on pp. 61 to 70 and 105 to 111. Most of the plates are illustrations of the ornaments, utensils, buildings, or idols of the natives.

BOLLER (Henry A.)

Among the Indians. Eight Years in the Far West, 1858-1866. Embracing Sketches of Montana and Salt Lake. 12° pp. 428. Philadelphia, 1868.

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No words can give a fairer description of the purpose, scope, and excution of this work, than the author's language in his preface: "The following pages have been written from a Journal and Notes kept during my residence of eight years in the Far West. I have endeavored to narrate truthfully, and without exaggeration, only such incidents as fell under my personal observation, and also to portray faithfully Indian life in its home aspect. At the present time when the Indian is being held up before the world as an incarnate fiend, it is but fair that his redeeming qualities should likewise be recorded." The author whose position as a fur trader among the savage tribes of the great plains on the upper Missouri for eight years, enabled him to form his judgment on solid experience, has clearly redeemed his pledges in the Preface.

BONNELL (George W.)

Topographical Description of Texas, to which is added an Account of the Indian Tribes, by George W. Bonnell. 24° Austin, 1840.

BONNER (T. D.)

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The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckworth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer; Chief of Crow Nation of Indians. Written from his own dictation. By T. D. Bonner. 12° pp. 357. New York, 1856.

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This narrative, said to have been dictated to Mr. Bonner long after the period of these marvelous adventures, bears the marks of that talent for exaggera tion for which the border men are so remarkable. Beckworth at this time had retired from the hazardous chieftainships he had attained, of several hostile tribes in succession, to a hut, where he was dispensing fire-water to the emigrants, who thronged the trail near his groggery. Although he speaks in rather sounding terms of his Revolutionary sire, he neglects to state that his mother was a mulatto slave; and Mr. Bonner is equally silent upon the tokens he must have seen of slight regard to truthfulness. Jim Beckworth was known for many years on the frontier as a daring adventurer, and an unscrupulous savage, not less brutal and bloodthirsty than his Indian allies; but no frontiersman ever made the mistake of believing all he said.

BONNYCASTLE (Sir Richard Henry).

Newfoundland in 1842. A Sequel to the Canadas in 1841. By Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle, Knt. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. pp. xi. +367. Vol. II. pp. 351 +map + 5 plates. London, Henry Colburn, publisher, 1842.

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A very interesting account of the fierce tribe of Red Indians, of Newfoundland, their unrelenting hatred of the whites, their merciless persecution by the latter, and the frequent expeditions undertaken to secure peaceful relations with them, is given by the author on pages 251 to 278.

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