Early Western Travels

1748-1846

Volume XIII

1748-1846

A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best
and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, de-
scriptive of the Aborigines and Social and
Economic Conditions in the Middle
and Far West, during the Period
of Early American Settlement

Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by

Reuben Gold Thwaites, LL.D.

Editor of "The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents," "Original
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition," "Hennepin's
New Discovery," etc.

COPYRIGHT 1905, BY

THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The Lakeside Press

R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY

CHICAGO

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIII

PREFACE.

The Editor

A JOURNAL OF TRAVELS INTO THE ARKANSA TERRITORY, dur-

ing the year 1819, with Occasional Observations on the

Manners of the Aborigines. Thomas Nuttall, F.L.S.

Appendix:

Section I. An Account of the Ancient Abori-

ginal Population of the Banks of the Missis-

sippi and the Contiguous Country

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338

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Section II. The History of the Natchez

Section III. Observations on the Chicasaws

and Choctaws.

Section IV.

Thermometrical Observations in

the Arkansa Territory, during the year 1819 365

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