no wanton hand ever disturb his remains.«
 

                                     Notes

1 The Mississippi is thus termed in several of the Indian languages. The reader
will gain a more just idea of the importance of this stream, if he recall to
mind the fact, that the Missouri and the Mississippi are properly the same
river. Their united lengths cannot be greatly short of four thousand miles.
 
2 All the states admitted to the American Union, since the revolution are called
New-States, with the exception of Vermont that had claims before the war which
were not, however, admitted until a later day.
 
3 Col. Boon, the patriarch of Kentucky. This venerable and hardy pioneer of
civilization emigrated to an estate three hundred miles west of the Mississippi,
in his ninety second year, because he found a population of ten to the square
mile, inconveniently crowded!
 
4 Hommany, is a dish composed chiefly of cracked corn, or maize.
 
5 It is scarcely necessary to say, that this American word means one who takes
his game in a trap. It is of general use on the frontiers. The beaver, an animal
too sagacious to be easily killed, is oftener taken in this way than in any
other.
 
6 The cant word for luggage in the western States is plunder. The term might
easily mislead one as to the character of the people, who, notwithstanding their
pleasant use of so expressive a word, are, like the inhabitants of all new
settlements hospitable and honest. Knavery of the description conveyed by
plunder, is chiefly found in regions more civilized.
 
7 There is a practice, in the new countries, to assemble the men of a large
district, sometimes of an entire county, to exterminate the beasts of prey. They
form themselves into a circle of several miles in extent, and gradually draw
nearer, killing all before them. The allusion is to this custom, in which the
hunted beast is turned from one to another.
 
8 Half-breeds; men born of Indian women by white fathers. This race has much of
the depravity of civilization without the virtues of the savage.
 
9 The whites are so called by the Indians, from their swords.
 
10 Anthony Wayne, a Pennsylvanian distinguished in the war of the revolution,
and subsequently against the Indians of the west, for his daring as a general,
by which he gained from his followers the title of Mad Anthony. General Wayne
was the son of the person mentioned in the life of West as commanding the
regiment which excited his military ardor.
 
11 The American government creates chiefs among the western tribes, and
decorates them with silver