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Voyages and travels of an Indian interpreter and trader, : describing the manners and customs of the North American Indians; with an account of the posts situated on the river Saint Laurence, Lake Ontario, &c. : To which is added, a vocabul

"List of subscribers": p. [iii]-vi · Contains numerous names of Indian chiefs, and members of tribes, and numerous examples, peppered throughout the text, of phrases and place names in various Indian languages which the author knew or which the Indian spoke to him. Also contains detailed description of various Indian villages in Upper and Lower Canada, upstate New York, and the Great Lakes regions. Discusses the Five and Six Nations of Indians, descriptions of Indian dances, marriage ceremonies and other social customs · Includes various speeches by Indian chiefs, betrothal speeches, and war songs in the text in the Ojibwa language · Vocabularies of Indian languages, p. [183]-295, 3rd count, include a list of words in English and an Eskimo language on p. [183]; a comparative glossary of numbers 1-100 and every hundred thereafter to 1,000 in English, Iroquois, Algonquin and Ojibwa on p. 184-195; a comparative glossary of verbs and nouns in English, Algonquin and Ojibwa on p. 196-208; a comparative glossary of words in English, Mohegan and Shawnee on p. 209; a comparative glossary of words in English, Mohegan, Algonquin and Ojibwa on p. 210-211; a glossary of words in English and Iro

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