MEMOIRS

OF A

CAPTIVITY

AMONG

THE INDIANS

OF

NORTH AMERICA,

FROM CHILDHOOD TO THE AGE OF NINETEEN:

WITH

ANECDOTES DESCRIPTIVE OF

THEIR MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

SOME ACCOUNT OF THE

SOIL, CLIMATE, AND VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS
OF THE TERRITORY WESTWARD OF THE MISSISSIPPI..

BY JOHN D. HUNTER.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN,

TILDEN LIBRARY

1895

MEM AOBK

LONDON:

Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode,

New-Street-Square.

PREFACE.

In presenting myself to the world as an author, I have complied more with the wishes of friends than my own inclinations. Indeed, I do so with reluctance, being fully sensible of my inability to do justice to the undertaking. This conviction arises from an imperfect acquaintance with the English language, and total ignorance of the art of book-making. Besides, I write from memory, of events, persons, and things, which are many years separated from the present, and some of them so remotely, as barely to come within my recollection. Under such circumstances, although kindly assisted by my friend Edward Clark, with interrogations respecting some of the subject matter, and the revisal and arrangement of the manuscript; still as regards manner, I am not insensible that there is ample ground for the exercise of indulgence on the part of my readers. If I were a finished scholar, the case would have scarcely suffered