Anecdotes of the American Indians, illustrating their eccentricities of characterFront matterReading editionChapter navigation102 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterANECDOTES OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS,PREFACE.INDIAN HONESTY.HONOR AMONG INDIANS.INDIAN ELOQUENCE.INDIAN COQUETRY.WEATHERFORD.THE FOLLOWING IS THE INCIDENT ON WHICH THE FOREGOING LINES ARE FOUNDED.2INDIAN CHARACTER.AN INDIAN BEAU.AN INDIAN TOAST.SHREWDNESS.LANGUAGE BY SIGNS.LOGAN.THE INDIAN’S VIEWS OF THE TRINITY.MORE ROOM.INDIAN MENDACITY.CANONICUS.ESQUIMAUX INDIANS.A CHOCTAW COUNCIL.THE YOUNG INDIAN CHIEF.4RED JACKET.INDIAN MODE OF GETTING A WIFE.SHENANDOH, THE ONEIDA CHIEF.INDIAN GRATITUDE AND WIT.HEAD WORK.MAGNANIMITY AND DISINTERESTED GENEROSITY: WITH STRIKING TRAITS IN THE SAVAGE CHARACTER.TECUMSEH, WHEN A YOUTH.INDIAN LOGIC.6THE INDIAN AND THE DUTCH CLERGYMAN.“INDIAN, WHO IS YOUR CAPTAIN?”INDIAN BON MOT.INDIAN FIDELITY.INDIAN HOSPITALITY.KINDNESS OF AN INDIAN HUSBAND.INDIAN RECORDS.BURNING OF BROOKFIELD.THE HEROIC COLLAPISSA.JOHN ELIOT’S FIRST MISSION TO THE INDIANS.AN INDIAN FUNERAL AT NONANETUM.LOVEWELL’S FIGHT.COTTON MATHER’S ACCOUNT OF THE INDIANS OF HIS TIME.THE VALIANT OLD MOHAWK.OPECHANCANOUGH’S LAST WAR.THE BURNING OF SCHENECTADY.REMARKABLE CUSTOM OF THE NATCHES.PONTIAC.THE IDOL OF THE PEORIAS. (FROM AN OLD TRAVELLER.)DEATH OF A MOHAWK CHIEF.MURDER OF MISS MACREA.AN INDIAN IN COLLEGE.AN INDIAN WARRANT.CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH.ANECDOTES OF KING PHILIP’S WAR. COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR.INTERVIEW BETWEEN ELIOT AND PHILIP.CHRISTIAN INDIANS ENGAGE IN THE WAR.MISFORTUNES OF PHILIP.CLOSE OF THE WAR.DEATH OF PHILIP.CANONICUS.CHICKATAUBUT.CONDITION OF THE INDIAN WOMEN.INDIAN EDUCATION.SPEECH OF AN INDIAN TO JOHN ELIOT.RELIGION OF THE INDIANS.DESTRUCTION OF THE PEQUOTS IN 1637.INDIAN COOLNESS.THE GREAT MASSACRE OF VIRGINIA.EXPLOIT OF CAPTAIN STANDISH.SINGULAR EXPEDIENT OF COLUMBUS.ADVENTURES OF JAMES CARTIER IN CANADA.MILLY FRANCIS.ADVENTURES OF SIMON BUTLER AMONG THE INDIANS.INGENUITY IN TORTURE.OSCEOLA.GRATITUDE OF OSCEOLA.THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN.THE FLORIDA INDIANS.GENERAL JACKSON’S CONQUEST OF THE INDIANS.MASSACRE OF MR. COOLY’S FAMILY.PHYSICAL CHARACTER OF THE INDIANS.DRESS OF THE INDIANS.INDIAN HUNTING.HABITATIONS OF THE INDIANS.INTELLECTUAL CHARACTER OF THE INDIANS.SINGULAR EXECUTION OF AN INDIAN.INDIAN VERACITY.PETER OTSAQUETTE, THE ONEIDAN.THE CATASTROPHE.BUFFALO HUNTING.RELIGION OF THE INDIANS.INDIAN FUNERALS.INDIAN CANNIBALISM.INDIAN DANCES.INDIAN GAMES.BEAUTIFUL TRAIT OF CHARACTER.THE REFORMED INDIAN.FIDELITY.STRATAGEM DEFEATED.SCENES IN KING WILLIAM’S WAR, 1689. SURPRISE OF DOVER.TREATMENT OF THE PRISONERS AT SALMON FALLS IN 1690.Beginning of this editionNext chapter →ANECDOTES OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS,All chapters and sections (102)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsANECDOTES OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS,PREFACE.INDIAN HONESTY.HONOR AMONG INDIANS.INDIAN ELOQUENCE.INDIAN COQUETRY.WEATHERFORD.THE FOLLOWING IS THE INCIDENT ON WHICH THE FOREGOING LINES ARE FOUNDED.2INDIAN CHARACTER.AN INDIAN BEAU.AN INDIAN TOAST.SHREWDNESS.LANGUAGE BY SIGNS.LOGAN.THE INDIAN’S VIEWS OF THE TRINITY.MORE ROOM.INDIAN MENDACITY.CANONICUS.ESQUIMAUX INDIANS.A CHOCTAW COUNCIL.THE YOUNG INDIAN CHIEF.4RED JACKET.INDIAN MODE OF GETTING A WIFE.SHENANDOH, THE ONEIDA CHIEF.INDIAN GRATITUDE AND WIT.HEAD WORK.MAGNANIMITY AND DISINTERESTED GENEROSITY: WITH STRIKING TRAITS IN THE SAVAGE CHARACTER.TECUMSEH, WHEN A YOUTH.INDIAN LOGIC.6THE INDIAN AND THE DUTCH CLERGYMAN.“INDIAN, WHO IS YOUR CAPTAIN?”INDIAN BON MOT.INDIAN FIDELITY.INDIAN HOSPITALITY.KINDNESS OF AN INDIAN HUSBAND.INDIAN RECORDS.BURNING OF BROOKFIELD.THE HEROIC COLLAPISSA.JOHN ELIOT’S FIRST MISSION TO THE INDIANS.AN INDIAN FUNERAL AT NONANETUM.LOVEWELL’S FIGHT.COTTON MATHER’S ACCOUNT OF THE INDIANS OF HIS TIME.THE VALIANT OLD MOHAWK.OPECHANCANOUGH’S LAST WAR.THE BURNING OF SCHENECTADY.REMARKABLE CUSTOM OF THE NATCHES.PONTIAC.THE IDOL OF THE PEORIAS. (FROM AN OLD TRAVELLER.)DEATH OF A MOHAWK CHIEF.MURDER OF MISS MACREA.AN INDIAN IN COLLEGE.AN INDIAN WARRANT.CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH.ANECDOTES OF KING PHILIP’S WAR. COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR.INTERVIEW BETWEEN ELIOT AND PHILIP.CHRISTIAN INDIANS ENGAGE IN THE WAR.MISFORTUNES OF PHILIP.CLOSE OF THE WAR.DEATH OF PHILIP.CANONICUS.CHICKATAUBUT.CONDITION OF THE INDIAN WOMEN.INDIAN EDUCATION.SPEECH OF AN INDIAN TO JOHN ELIOT.RELIGION OF THE INDIANS.DESTRUCTION OF THE PEQUOTS IN 1637.INDIAN COOLNESS.THE GREAT MASSACRE OF VIRGINIA.EXPLOIT OF CAPTAIN STANDISH.SINGULAR EXPEDIENT OF COLUMBUS.ADVENTURES OF JAMES CARTIER IN CANADA.MILLY FRANCIS.ADVENTURES OF SIMON BUTLER AMONG THE INDIANS.INGENUITY IN TORTURE.OSCEOLA.GRATITUDE OF OSCEOLA.THE CROWNING OF POWHATAN.THE FLORIDA INDIANS.GENERAL JACKSON’S CONQUEST OF THE INDIANS.MASSACRE OF MR. COOLY’S FAMILY.PHYSICAL CHARACTER OF THE INDIANS.DRESS OF THE INDIANS.INDIAN HUNTING.HABITATIONS OF THE INDIANS.INTELLECTUAL CHARACTER OF THE INDIANS.SINGULAR EXECUTION OF AN INDIAN.INDIAN VERACITY.PETER OTSAQUETTE, THE ONEIDAN.THE CATASTROPHE.BUFFALO HUNTING.RELIGION OF THE INDIANS.INDIAN FUNERALS.INDIAN CANNIBALISM.INDIAN DANCES.INDIAN GAMES.BEAUTIFUL TRAIT OF CHARACTER.THE REFORMED INDIAN.FIDELITY.STRATAGEM DEFEATED.SCENES IN KING WILLIAM’S WAR, 1689. SURPRISE OF DOVER.TREATMENT OF THE PRISONERS AT SALMON FALLS IN 1690.Weatherford’s Revenge. See page 12.◇ANECDOTES OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS, →